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How can you be so sympathetic Watching me, a simple moth Pinned down to a corkboard Desperately trying to escape I’d like to believe it’s because you see yourself in me You were once a butterfly in the same position But I saw you torn from the painful security of that board And, still bleeding, I saw your gorgeous wings ripped from you I thought they’d never grow back the same So how can you be so sympathetic Watching me simply pinned So securely While you fly so free, so deservingly You’ve worked so hard to mend your wounds While I’ve almost stop struggling, accepting a broken fate So hopelessly inspired by your success So proud of something I’ll never be Purely because I won’t break free
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Dec 24, 2013
Dec 24, 2013 at 10:29 PM UTC
Pins and Needles
How can you be so sympathetic Watching me, a simple moth Pinned down to a corkboard Desperately trying to escape I’d like to believe it’s because you see yourself in me You were once a butterfly in the same position But I saw you torn from the painful security of that board And, still bleeding, I saw your gorgeous wings ripped from you I thought they’d never grow back the same So how can you be so sympathetic Watching me simply pinned So securely While you fly so free, so deservingly You’ve worked so hard to mend your wounds While I’ve almost stop struggling, accepting a broken fate So hopelessly inspired by your success So proud of something I’ll never be Purely because I won’t break free
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Dec 24, 2013
Dec 24, 2013 at 10:29 PM UTC
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