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  Feb 2015 Makiah Duncan
Brittani
I have to tell you that I'm joking
So that you won't start to shy away
I can't talk about my feelings
If I want you to stay

The thing is:
This isn't really working
It's almost like you're not even here
I can't keep pretending
I can't keep living my life in fear.
  Feb 2015 Makiah Duncan
athena g
if you really think about it,
are you even sad?
all this dark poetry and old melancholy ballads
and red black lines on your wrist,
is that even you?
or are you so preoccupied with being sad that
a moment of joy passes by and you don't even savour it
you make no attempts to grab it and hold on to it
and it just leaves
what must I do to make you believe
that this world may be
a cold, dark place
but there is always one ray of hope
and it flickers
it flickers within you.
- a.g.

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