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I walk with ambitious expectations My head filled with slow frustration Air around me is radiation clouding in my lungs My heart beats like a steady train Slow but heavy, polluting my brain Everyone around me is evil, or am I just mad? Stop looking, stop thinking. Stop all the foolish queries. Doubt and hope and endless confusion weighing me down as I quiver with fear. I can't, I have to, I will. Outside I can breathe, on my own, when the bats and the flies no longer surround me. Fresh air so smooth and clean, Inside there it's clouded and thick. Now I am a bird, though my wings will not lift. The rain starts to pour but I cannot shift. I try and I try but my bones are too weak, hollow, compressed and my eyesight's turned bleak. I realize suddenly, in all my fear, that behind me was my future, all I hold dear. Water is rising, my lungs start to fill. I'm no longer a bird, but a flower. No power. No will.
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 7:07 PM UTC
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I walk with ambitious expectations My head filled with slow frustration Air around me is radiation clouding in my lungs My heart beats like a steady train Slow but heavy, polluting my brain Everyone around me is evil, or am I just mad? Stop looking, stop thinking. Stop all the foolish queries. Doubt and hope and endless confusion weighing me down as I quiver with fear. I can't, I have to, I will. Outside I can breathe, on my own, when the bats and the flies no longer surround me. Fresh air so smooth and clean, Inside there it's clouded and thick. Now I am a bird, though my wings will not lift. The rain starts to pour but I cannot shift. I try and I try but my bones are too weak, hollow, compressed and my eyesight's turned bleak. I realize suddenly, in all my fear, that behind me was my future, all I hold dear. Water is rising, my lungs start to fill. I'm no longer a bird, but a flower. No power. No will.
lucycgray
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Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 7:07 PM UTC
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