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when did writing start hurting so much

when did writing start hurting so much

being honest with myself so hard?

 

my words bled into sunsets, moonsets, dawns, dusks and the like

all my times were marked in some thing written for me to look back on

 

but when did it become so physically difficult, so heavy

to be honest with myself?

 

maybe it was when i realized that the mundanity of life is the

gravebed of my soul, having money to myself was not that great?

 

maybe when i realized that art for art's sake just reeks of desperation

 

and those younger than me became renowned and my age started to join

the generation meant for engagements, marriages, less social possibilities

 

and i then realized that i was lying to myself out of sheer desperation

but that i was desperately alone, desperately fighting scared,

 

flying was no longer a dream come true, and the worldspan measured

across the palm of my hand had already happened and i was an emu

 

left for extinction, my soul just a joke, an ironical metaphor

for the jaded cynicism that i had condemned and i read more and saw more

 

realizing i am frog at the bottom of a well and my victim mentality

was maybe a figment of imagination, and the hellscape of my perspective

 

being skewed drove around, round, round in my mind, such a frightening

possibility that what if?? what if?? i was just insane?? i was crazy??

 

was anything that happened to me that bad?? is there something wrong with me??

 

i was almost convinced and then i felt my heart truly shatter

i realized i did not actually matter

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