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Aug 2019
I thought to myself
You're not just another chapter
You're what the whole book is all about
that the past ones have gradually built
and i'm the actress
trying to get into your words

Chapter 1
The summary has fooled me
they gave you labels and to me warnings
instead what i found was the right words
i wanted to put my thoughts into
you said it first, and i added where necessary
we somehow felt the connection,
so we both moved on to a screenplay.

Chapter 2
I couldn't keep following the lines,
for that's something a kid can also do,
so i mended where i thought defined me more
that it won't let me stand still on the stage
thinking, wondering and questioning if i'm really exploring
for i'm not supposed to repeat exactly what has been said
what's the point of watching if you can just read.

Chapter 3
I thought I was doing great
cuz you've been applauding since the beginning
but all of a sudden you stopped, and i heard "next!"
then i realized I wasn't longer something you wanted
That i turned out to be different
from what you had in mind

suddenly it felt like
somebody has just untied a blindfold from my eyes
that was when I finally knew,
it was not yet a rehearsal but an audition
with numeral candidates behind me
and I happened to be the first person you judged.
I wrote this about a month ago after a heartbreak. Sitting in the dark with only the moonlight as a company, wondering where did I go wrong.  But I stopped at half of 'Chapter 2', my eyes were too tired from all the crying. Until today, something happened that made me dig in where I left off. I'm not sure if I completed it with the same feeling still, but as I read it again I just knew this is what I wanted to say.
PLAINJETPLANE
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PLAINJETPLANE  27/F/Malaysia
(27/F/Malaysia)   
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   Raihah Mior
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