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Nothing more than charity.

Why can’t I let myself be

happy?

Why is it that

every time something absolutely

PHENOMENAL

happens,

my mind starts to

beat

me

down

into a

****** messy pulp?

Why does it hurt to be

happy?

 

He hugged me.

Said I was sweet.

But yet I’m not

ecstatic as I should be.

Perhaps it’s my ability to see that

we will never happen?

My ability to see that it was

nothing?

Just pity.

He pitied me,

pitied my poem.

I poured out my

heart and soul,

and gave it to him on a

golden platter.

Yet he feels

nothing

in return.

He only said it was sweet

because he felt

sorry;

sorry that it had to be

him.

He only hugged me

because he felt

pity.

I’m just a

charity case.

Nothing

more.

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maggie-mcleod
Published
Nov 6, 2011
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