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Dec 2014
They ask me what it feels like to always be so dejected
It’s hard for me to understand why I was selected
I cleared my voice and I tried to explain
How I dread the desolated blood running through my veins

Imagine waking up in the morning disenchanted
That your wish has not been granted
All the bitter alcohol and pills you swallowed
Has failed to make you dead and hallow.

It sits on your shoulders all day and night
You try not to give up on this fight
But each day weight keeps getting placed
As I was not ready for their embrace.

The body of depression holds a door open for me
Unknowing that it’s throwing me into a bottomless sea
I hear people shouting and screaming telling me to evacuate
Dear friends, I have no clue how to swim, but maybe this is my fate.

Don’t break me please
I’m a fragile glass, can’t you see?
Once I drop, you can try to put me back together
But I’d never be the same from tomorrow and forever.
People ask me what it's like to be sad
Brenna Smith
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Brenna Smith  San Diego
(San Diego)   
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   --- and Kate Irons
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