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wake up every 5 am with coffee stains under your eyes the bitter analytic was once a child with daisies in her hair but now there's only demons in her head she wasn't beautiful as the ocean but she had the depth the type that always noticed the shift in the air after midnight bright eyes turned into her mother's, sullen and pitiless they told her to stop looking at the stars and to start looking at her future soft hands turned into her father's, brutal and calloused they told her to stop fixing people and to start fixing herself there was a child with roots in her veins and hands softer than flower petals she talked about the universes stamped on her fingerprints and compared them to the bark of trees but now she only talks to her demons the ones that ripped the daisies out of her hair you watch the news, think "oh, how horrible", when someone's been murdered and feel horrible when you realize you didn't feel a thing grab a coffee, always black, rub your eyes and hope you get through the day without malfunctioning the earth gave her a youth her parents couldn't offer her but the world took that away this isn't growing up, this is oblivion
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM UTC
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wake up every 5 am with coffee stains under your eyes the bitter analytic was once a child with daisies in her hair but now there's only demons in her head she wasn't beautiful as the ocean but she had the depth the type that always noticed the shift in the air after midnight bright eyes turned into her mother's, sullen and pitiless they told her to stop looking at the stars and to start looking at her future soft hands turned into her father's, brutal and calloused they told her to stop fixing people and to start fixing herself there was a child with roots in her veins and hands softer than flower petals she talked about the universes stamped on her fingerprints and compared them to the bark of trees but now she only talks to her demons the ones that ripped the daisies out of her hair you watch the news, think "oh, how horrible", when someone's been murdered and feel horrible when you realize you didn't feel a thing grab a coffee, always black, rub your eyes and hope you get through the day without malfunctioning the earth gave her a youth her parents couldn't offer her but the world took that away this isn't growing up, this is oblivion
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM UTC
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