I became the crutch you leaned on
Supporting the weight of your pain
I put a cast on your heart
When it became too battered
I became your most sturdy stilt
To help you move on
Until you felt better
That's when you left me
Never did you ask if I sustained injuries
While I was nursing you back to health

Little inexperienced girl
Wanted to eat the world
But it swallowed her whole
It won't return her
Until she's nothing but bones

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*I cry alone
Because that’s how I stay strong,

I cry alone,
Because that’s how I protect myself

I cry alone,
Because that’s how I stay ahead
of the game the next day.

I suffer my own struggle alone
And you wouldn’t why

I’m hurting inside
And you wouldn’t know why

I isolate myself
And you wouldn’t know why

I’m lonely
And still you wouldn’t know why.

how does one word
hurt much?

Do you even need help
in carrying
the load,
the burden you
kept,
and the life
you're trying to
bury?

SOMETIMES answering one question
is just asking too much...

A drought in my state of being...
Every cloud, every storm deceiving
I prayed for the rain
Let it wash off the stain
Of my yesterday...

To the point of
Cursing everyone...
I found no comfort in the sun

One day... I awaken...
To the quiet of a thousand snowflakes
Forsaken...

****** for every flood
That drowned an eye...
Persecuted for her right
To ask
Why... it drowned them...

Gently beating on the pains
Of my window...
Soft and quiet, burying herself
Among the drifts...

And she asked this....

"Can I fall upon your earth?
Quench the soil and your thirst...
Give to you... a snow white dream...
Make the color fade away...
Black and white
Your everything..."

I wiped the frost from my eyes...

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