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Guillotine

How am I supposed to live in this guillotine

I can't move my head

I can't do what I want

How am I supposed to live

 

Do I live carelessly

Screaming and shouting til my lungs bleed

Shaking and fussing in hysteria til the skin of my neck peels

Just so it can all be severed with a seamless blade

 

Right through my neck

The fine edges sliding through skin and bone

Leaving only my limp body

 

Or do I live in fear

Constantly looking up at the blade

Begging for mercy like a coward

Like a piece of ****

 

It looks so real

so precise and trained

Deadly and opening

 

It hovers above me

Waiting to fall

To claim another life

Another love

 

How am I supposed to live

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whyamiaspoon
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Aug 8, 2013
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