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Pen ink gliding across paper Yellowed by the sun for ages From my fingertips bubble words I do not yet understand But they come from the innermost depths Of my soul, never to be voiced My words never wished to be voiced Created to live on the paper Found only in the hidden depths Of my notebooks on shelves for ages No one could understand All my thoughts strung into words My head is so full of words That know not how to be adequately voiced Themselves they do not understand As flimsy and fragile as paper Building up for what seems like ages Into the sea of confusion they sink to the depths How deep are my soul's depths It's distance cannot be put into words The extent of my thoughts goes on for ages For ages they'll decline to be voiced And one day I'll crumple them up like paper Until they're too wrinkled to understand I do not want others to understand My thoughts, that I hide in the depths Of my pen kept away from paper I refuse to make words That fear being voiced To people of all genders and ages I wish not to be remembered for ages Most will not understand My opinions seek not to be voiced Before my soul implodes into its own depths Devoid of all thoughts, feelings, & words As blank as a white sheet of paper For ages I'll stay in the depths Of what I don't understand, the words never voiced, smeared in ink on yellow paper.
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 11:35 PM UTC
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Pen ink gliding across paper Yellowed by the sun for ages From my fingertips bubble words I do not yet understand But they come from the innermost depths Of my soul, never to be voiced My words never wished to be voiced Created to live on the paper Found only in the hidden depths Of my notebooks on shelves for ages No one could understand All my thoughts strung into words My head is so full of words That know not how to be adequately voiced Themselves they do not understand As flimsy and fragile as paper Building up for what seems like ages Into the sea of confusion they sink to the depths How deep are my soul's depths It's distance cannot be put into words The extent of my thoughts goes on for ages For ages they'll decline to be voiced And one day I'll crumple them up like paper Until they're too wrinkled to understand I do not want others to understand My thoughts, that I hide in the depths Of my pen kept away from paper I refuse to make words That fear being voiced To people of all genders and ages I wish not to be remembered for ages Most will not understand My opinions seek not to be voiced Before my soul implodes into its own depths Devoid of all thoughts, feelings, & words As blank as a white sheet of paper For ages I'll stay in the depths Of what I don't understand, the words never voiced, smeared in ink on yellow paper.
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May 26, 2015
May 26, 2015 at 11:35 PM UTC
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