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196 lb average male weight ego not included 156 lb average female weight although one spoken sentence hits like a ton of bricks 20 lb unsaid words, searing, left in your throat 10 lb “It won’t happen again” guns for vocal chords 40 lb a dead car battery 25 lb for every bullet he left inside her spirit a scale says 167 pounds body mass measured heavy heart unaccounted 19.30 g roughly the weight of a wedding ring she’s seen three removed from three different fingers 1.5 g enough for six rotations enough to feel zero 1.5 oz enough for a shot take six to feel a hundred 10 million tons the weight of a star 10 million tons the thought of her we are loaded dense filled made-to-break paper-made carbon-bounded heart-strung fire-resistant the weight we carry is not the numbers on the scale we are much more than the pounds we gain the aches that we hold the tears that did not fall living with a hallowed heart does not make it any less heavier these light words were not meant for these paper limbs gravity could care less we are pressured felt squeezed until broken forevermore built strong lasts shortly bulldozed by just one fallowed swoop we are demolished you could build your vessel as ravenous and as merciless as you can only to be held down by the world we are defied measured counted hated loved we are
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Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015 at 11:31 PM UTC
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196 lb average male weight ego not included 156 lb average female weight although one spoken sentence hits like a ton of bricks 20 lb unsaid words, searing, left in your throat 10 lb “It won’t happen again” guns for vocal chords 40 lb a dead car battery 25 lb for every bullet he left inside her spirit a scale says 167 pounds body mass measured heavy heart unaccounted 19.30 g roughly the weight of a wedding ring she’s seen three removed from three different fingers 1.5 g enough for six rotations enough to feel zero 1.5 oz enough for a shot take six to feel a hundred 10 million tons the weight of a star 10 million tons the thought of her we are loaded dense filled made-to-break paper-made carbon-bounded heart-strung fire-resistant the weight we carry is not the numbers on the scale we are much more than the pounds we gain the aches that we hold the tears that did not fall living with a hallowed heart does not make it any less heavier these light words were not meant for these paper limbs gravity could care less we are pressured felt squeezed until broken forevermore built strong lasts shortly bulldozed by just one fallowed swoop we are demolished you could build your vessel as ravenous and as merciless as you can only to be held down by the world we are defied measured counted hated loved we are
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Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015 at 11:31 PM UTC
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