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Candy Grin

The false crisendo of your words

Grate against my every nerves.

Wandering round

With ****** feet

How many expectations

Have I failed to meet?

 

What more do you want

Of my sorry soul

When I cannot bring

My self to breath anymore?

 

So I watch your hopes

all tumbling down

It feels quite cold

Down here in the ground.

I'm sorry that I wasn't enough

I tried to be what you asked of me

But I didnt think it'd be So tough.

 

My weary bones creak and ache,

My wrist all burned and ******

Can you not be quite just once for my sake?

 

I understand the gravity.

I know Im failing at life,

But you dig right in,

spreading the cavity,

How to ignore the strife?

 

Whispered arguments bleed through the walls

How much longer until we fall?

Through the floor straight down to hell

All because I could not tell.

 

Should I weep in pain,

And slave away,

To satisfy you're whimsical ways?

Should I sell my soul,

And bite my tongue,

Just to keep the wallet full?

But "your so young,

You've no excuse,

So bend your back,

Put those hands to use."

 

Welcome to life.

Put away your pain,

No time for strife,

No time for play,

Just nod you head,

Exit the stage,

And get a job,

So you'll be payed.

 

I'd sooner live a poor church mouse,

Then lose myself in persute of a house.

But no, I'll smile my candy grin,

And talk with sugar sweet.

Hide the weight of the pain,

So your expectations, I'll meet.

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Written by
iska
F / lost in the realm of Ink.
Published
Feb 3, 2018
Lines·Words
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Notes

Some times it's just not enough.

Tags
#pain#nagging#anxiety#job#money#poor#greed#necessity#depression#failure
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