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is it OK to want that? I ask myself that much too much desires I'm afraid to touch I keep them at a distance I lock them up with chains of fear I cannot look at that not here not now not I that is not me I look away I cannot see I cannot be this person that I fear and hate I can't relate to all the parts of me that I dissociate from hide away from all the things I should not be that make me feel afraid of me I cast away but where I turn away from me I cast my shadow
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Sep 13, 2025
Sep 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM UTC
Cast Away
is it OK to want that? I ask myself that much too much desires I'm afraid to touch I keep them at a distance I lock them up with chains of fear I cannot look at that not here not now not I that is not me I look away I cannot see I cannot be this person that I fear and hate I can't relate to all the parts of me that I dissociate from hide away from all the things I should not be that make me feel afraid of me I cast away but where I turn away from me I cast my shadow
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Sep 13, 2025
Sep 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM UTC
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