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Mar 2023
I built confidence on a false hope,
this is where the seasons change.
I felt myself grow to be hacked down,
by the neighborhood lumberjacks.

As they burn my wooden soul,
They tease and joke.

"I can't believe they'd do this to you",
But you were the one who set fire to me.
Louisa Coller
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Louisa Coller  26/Non-binary/England
(26/Non-binary/England)   
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