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Sep 2014
I pulled my muscle
Reaching out
It didn't hurt right away
But I slept it off
And what do you know
It's worse the second day
And every time I try to
Reach back the same old way
I'm reminded that
My muscles might never be the same

I didn't stretch enough I guess
I didn't warm up before I played
I've made this exact same mistake before
So I feel stupid
Insecure
I can't reach you now and never did
The worst part is that's true
You saw the look
In my eye
As the muscle-
The one attached to my heart
That makes it beat faster
That makes it heal faster
Lost a little strength
Lost a little power
It Still works ok
I'll be ok
I said it
This pain it never really lasts that long
Right?

It just snapped
It couldn't bare
The weight of all the work it took to open my mouth and open my eyes and stretch out  my arms
It couldn't do all the things at once
I didn't know it at the time
Like I said
I'll be just fine

You're not a doctor
You don't even have ice
But I thought
-I hoped
You might be nice
Kiss the pain away
Just like my mom would

And now I'm handicapped and
broken from reaching out to you and
my hand was left just hanging between
you and me and true
abigail ruth
Written by
abigail ruth  los angeles
(los angeles)   
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   Julie Butler
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