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Fragments self-portrait

I am sooooo tired,

exhausted..

My mind needs to be shut down,

my head hurts.

Words want to be said but my prides me wounded, my selfworth is burning low

there is a lump in my throat.

I'm haunted by to evanescent nature of my past joy.

Daunted but how far my seems to be.

Yesterday, last week, last month, last year and today have me in the center, wearing the same things, feeling the same,

worried I'm at my end, but a while older

 

my life seems to be rejecting me; or maybe I it..

I want to be free to exist but everything seems to come with a cost.

There are critics everywhere

even my thoughts have thoughts objecting to them before i receive them and make certain i don't need them.. So I'm running around in circles not knowing why i never got around to things my mind first thought whiles ago,

 

my will has become meek

my worth shrunk to camouflage with dust specks

I'm exhausted from playing this part,

misguided by the values of what's recently been made 'right'

distracted completely from the life i want to live.

And i don't have a clue which switch ***** it back to normal,

or which life i will leave for those which have grown accustomed to this timid version of me...

After all people aren't always happy when they say. "...you have changed..."

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atrisia
Ugandan
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Sep 10, 2015
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