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Adding Up the Damage

An idea consumes your mind

Making you believe in its truth

Pushing you deeper, it starts its feed

Feeding on all your held beliefs

Till there are none left

Infecting you

Overtaking you

Resting within you

Tricks you into believing this is where all is right

As you succumb to the infection, this dream world appears

This idea takes you into the dream world

Living life as you think it should be lived

You stay in this new, wonder-filled world.

Forgetting what’s true

Until you see it…

A small projection of what you use to know

It sends shivers and spasms throughout your body

The truth comes flooding back

Like water from Katrina

You want to

Need to

Escape

The damage is irreparable

Irreversible

Forever left with the damage

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Written by
sarah-11
American
Published
Jan 23, 2011
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25·129
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© Sarah Wojnicki 2010. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without expressed and written permission from the author of this material is strictly prohibited. Excerpts may be used provided that full credit is given to Sarah Wojnicki with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

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