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First Thing's First

Well, let's see it like This.

 

He's tall, handsome, simple to understand,

and there's me,

yeah, me, the kid who

grew up alone so he learned about

different species of mushrooms and

how poetry has a meter

(Not mine, not here, but somewhere, some does).

 

He can tell you how pretty you are,

while you stare at him, into those shallow souls of eyes.

He'll hurt you, right? Yeah, probably.

 

The human nature is to tend towards simplicity and ease,

and I'm not easy to understand or simple.

He is.

He's your "Normal" that all of your friends want.

He's your athletic-scholarly(Ha!)-goodboy-Christian kid,

and then there is me.

Your friends don't like me, and that burdens you.

Because I'm different and they are judgmental, but hey,

he's a good kid (not) and he's very smart (I'm still smarter)

but he will hurt you and scar you and I will

take the scars and heal them and use my

care as a fierce weapon against the night.

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derick
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Jan 19, 2013
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