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I'm tired and I'm lonely,
I'm sickly and I'm cold,
My lips are dry and cracking,
My clothes starting to mold.

Left out on the streets I am,
just a little girl,
Everyone walks by and laughs at my greasy,
stringy curls.

My body is covered in dirt,
My clothes are stained and messy,
I've got scrapes, bumps, and bruises,
with no mother at all to kiss me.

I live in empty doorways, old allyways,
and old abandoned cars,
but my face will always hide my saddest,
deepest scars.

I've seen more and done more in a day
than you may in a lifetime,
just think, all of this and I haven't even
reached my prime.


I've been beaten, stolen, broken,
and taken for granted,
I look at normal people and
I don't think they'd understand it.

I'm homeless but I smile every time
someone looks my way,
because even though I'm not one of
them, I hope they never have a bad day.
Like the Oscars,
We’re an annual affair.
The build up is glamorous; the aftermath fleeting.
You always win,
My tattooed Meryl Streep.
I wrote this about a friend, who is sometimes a whatever the male term for "mistress" is.
 Aug 2013 Artelie Palijo
Emily M
I love you
I love you
I love you.
You don't know how much I love you.

You have done so much
you have helped me through lots,
and I don't know how tell you
that I'm so thankful for your thoughts.

I love you
I love you.
You don't understand how much I love you.

From the way you laugh
to the way you cry,
you are perfect to me,
I just wish I could tell you why.

I love you
but these three words can cost me all of you.

And that is why,
no matter what no matter why,
the trio of these words
I must share with only me, myself, and I.
 Aug 2013 Artelie Palijo
ZM
He's always lonely,
but he's never alone.
He has everything he could ever want,
but it's never enough.
He has a lot of love,
but he doesn't recognize it.
He sleeps in a dark room in a dark corner in his house.
He has a wife and two kids,
but it seems he doesn't know they're there anymore.
He lingers in a eternity of dark depression...
but if you look closely into his eyes,
you see his soft dark lips smiling...
I'm not sure when I stopped living
And just started to....be
To breath in and out of this empty chest of mine
Blinking and moving
But never feeling
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