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Apr 2016
Where I’m from pain has always been my middle name
I would close my eyes to see only a man raising his fist in vain
All I ever seemed to know was pain
Everyday I seemed to drowning in rain
Pain..
Tears drain from my bloodshot eyes
running 24/7
chasing something worse than I was originally running from
forever finding myself dwindling into the arms of heartless guys just as broken as I
Where I’m from
I was a failure before I was even born
Day by day forced to look into the eyes of a live devil in disguise and be told I was ugly, worthless, unwanted
Told I would never amount to anything
Where I’m from it’s nothing like most expect
It’s a night sky abandoned
where the stars are transformed into shards of shattered glass
In this place, all that we see is blood and tears, people crawling on their hands and knees because they can no longer handle the pain on their feet
We all seem to have fallen weak
We are here but we can hardly breathe
seeming to always be at a loss of words
Pain, is the only language we speak
So just when you thought black couldn’t get any blacker
and your darkest night couldn’t get any darker
I could easily open up my heart, reveal it’s secrets, and simly prove you wrong
If only you could see, this hell that I call home
Where I’m from
Jasmine Reed
Written by
Jasmine Reed  Virginia
(Virginia)   
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