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Hand Me Down

Someday when the world isn’t so cold

And smiles smother her tempered heart

She’ll open her eyes to a new life

Vacating the existence of suffering

 

Leaving her world of hand me downs

 

She runs from shattered love

Expecting the collapse to destroy her

Second guessing what could have been

And not believing in second chances

 

Because her love is a hand me down

 

Soon enough she will see

The bold writing on the walls

Screaming there is more to life

If she would only open her eyes

 

To a life without hand me downs

 

But for now she will blindly walk

Wearing clothes saturated with pain

Skeptical of the love she deserves

Because her life is no more than a hand me down

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Written by
elizabeth-rifenburg
American
Published
Nov 27, 2011
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