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Lost to History

by PatrickHarrison

I am a hymn, in a hidden drawer. I'm just waiting to be found, like my grandfather, and his father and the father before him. But what if- I am the broken shower rod, the abandoned one? the less-than important one? I ask because I'm terrified of losing more than just myself . Self commentary aside, are we not all two halves of the same loaf of bread? Destined to grow mold, or become hard and bitter? Can we not see our own mortality until we are truly and utterly faced with it? I know it's just a maze. And like my Father's son, I am a mouse looking for cheese in the farthest corners, the deepest pieces of my own existence. But like cheese, and like mice, one day I will grow old, and wither away. So brush the dust and burn the fur, watch my skeleton grey. Don't mind the mess from the "accident." I was never meant to stay. No, I was never meant to stay at all.
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18 / M / Chicago
Published
Apr 9, 2020
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2m
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#hopeless#heartless#broken#depression#sad#love#loss
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