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Nov 2013
no one ever told me,
that the butterflies in your stomach,
could stab at you like knives
carving out your insides while,
you sit in silence as you feel the hole
deepening.
stretch.
no one ever told me,
that the butterflies in your stomach,
could feel like gunshots,
from the inside out.

Maybe I won't survive, but that is okay for,
*Egal, wo wir morgen sind!
The last line is German for "it doesn't matter, where we are tomorrow"
Johnnie Rae
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Johnnie Rae  25/F/New Jersey
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