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Happiness, or so it seemed

Happy, or so it seemed

Happiness with you seems like inadequacy

Happiness may feel like a bad stomach ache

Or saying goodbye over and over again

 

Maybe happiness is biting your tonuge

Telling everyone you love “no”

Watching yourself slip away

Pushing yourself off the highest peak

 

Maybe happiness was finding myself at rock bottom

Watchng you bury me even farther into the ground

Watching you laugh as you put the dirt over my face

Making sure I was really dead

 

Happiness was actually getting up

Brushing the dirt off

Looking myself in the face

Finding myself alive again

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chelsea-daley
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Oct 6, 2013
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