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 Apr 2014 Erica Farr
Elli
I stare at the crowd
rapid breath intakes
sweaty palms
I can't do this

I look back at her
telling her I can't do it
don't overreact
she says

my heartbeat is deafening
faster
faster
as if it wants to escape

I can do this
I think
but i know I can't

I'll fail
fail
f a i l

I feel nauseous
why am i so stupid
all I have to do is go there
just walk
**** it
why am i afraid?

I can do this,
I convince myself again
but my heart and sweaty palms
told me otherwise  

I look back to her again
with my pleading eyes
on the verge of crying

it's so simple
how can you fail,
everyone else can do it

she says

simple for her,
but I am not her
nor everyone else

why are you forcing me?

i bite my lip,
so hard that it's bleeding

I stammer
but- I - can't-do- it

why can't you understand?
this happened to me today. I have fear of speaking in public, and such, but my mom thinks i'm just overreacting.
 Apr 2014 Erica Farr
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 Apr 2014 Erica Farr
M
Maybe kissing won't
make it better,
like mom always told us,
when we had a scrape or a scratch;
maybe this cut is too deep for
a little peck
maybe we need
a full on makeout session
to make it better.
You wanna try?
 Apr 2014 Erica Farr
Josh Hall
Writ a full report,
This medical miracle,
Is so ******-up in the head!
We'd better take him to an expert,
Maybe they'll understand,
His diagnosis,
Is dead.
He's smoking!
He's drinking!
He's ******* with some girl!
She appears to be a scary *****,
Let the horror-show unfurl!
I prescribe a good vacation,
Maybe just a shrink,
**** it!
Let's send him to a psych-ward,
Drain his blood,
And make him think!
Pubescence is a crime against humanity,
Teens are dead or on the brink,
I won't stop complaining!
Teenagers are crazy,
Drunk,
And blazing,
Tell me again to **** myself,
And you'll watch your blood spill out!
Cry until you die,
Abandoned tear-ducts,
Buy my time.
We've sold our souls to 4 years,
Of razor blades,
And *** online.
Cry!
Cry!
Cry!
Alligator tears abide.
Maybe I'll climb,
Just to jump.
Cross my heart,
Hope to fly!
ugh
 Apr 2014 Erica Farr
Emery Hall
Here I lay
In the silence of my mind,
And in the darkness of time
Where all is lost,
In these depths of
This godforsaken sea.

And as I look up
At the fading stars,
Always running
Away from me.
They give me joy

As I slowly sink
In this godforsaken sea

— The End —