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It Happened Slowly-- In steps-- Until I Woke Up One Day This Winter and Thought to Myself, "Now, Where Has My Childhood Gone?"
My childhood was sunshine,
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summer days,
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pool,
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book,
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trees,
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It was yellow dandelion, carpet
@z-trista-davis
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Please Don't
Don't forgive me because I cried
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Don't forgive me "even though" I lied
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Don't forgive me because
@mak-waddle
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Maturity
Oh child, goodbye
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For they wish for you leave
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Oh woman, stand strong
@jude-m-salazar
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The next great race
*And as she watched the sunrise on her future, her heart fluttered with anticipation for the next gr
@jessica-harveyfs
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Limbo
My heart cannot settle.
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I don't belong here.
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I'm "too young to leave,"
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But I'm too old to stay
@mica-kluge
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Happy Birthday Grandma
Come back, coffee eyes
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I need to tell you the story about the blue bowed baby
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I boiled up in blo
@chemicalkid
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Barbarous Youth
I give in... I give in...
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I wear my sweaters thin
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because nothing ever feels
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hyper-real
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I kn
@sarah-sad-matcha
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Growing up
*IcySky:*
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You can grow up, and get wiser, and stay true to yourself, there's a difference between
@IcySky
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Wells
I have cried these eyes empty,
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Time and time again, I know
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The hurt.
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Cold caves on my face, St
@alisha-isabell
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BABY STEPS
Take your fucking fedora off you are not a Jones.
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Kid, leave the captain's hat on, gods know you'r
@tim-knight
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disillusionment
disappointed with what adulthood seems to be
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constant worry constant stress no relaxing until soci
@akron-family
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I Lost my Daddy to Stockholm Syndrome
according to King Nothing,
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father’s day phone calls
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are restricted…
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i live in a world where /
@pride-ed
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i don't want to feel
i don’t want to feel
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like poetry
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is a chore, like i’m
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choosing to pour my thoughts
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out of my
@ferrin-mcginness
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Body Reactions
I used to fall for her,
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head over heels,
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but somehow I let us,
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get off on the wrong foot,
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be
@GodDamnItCat
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Daddy, I have grown up
Daddy, I have grown up and
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Daddy, I have become a woman and
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Daddy, I do not need you anymore
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I
@moriah-j-chace
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Warning – Danger Up Ahead
For a long time now, i’ve felt like i’ve been waiting.
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To be let in on the secret,
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To get it
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T
@SWrites
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I Never Gave this a Title
Once there was a boy
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Who became a cog when he entered the big machine
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When he started to slow do
@RPS
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Boy's Last Birthday.
Spinning on a top of color;
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The balloons are inflated in the desk,
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and the rainbow streamers gav
@pride-ed
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Holding Our Breath
Holding my breath as a child
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Was so difficult.
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I use to cheat
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And pretend that I
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Wasn’t brea
@remyrin
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Untitled
eighteen spins around this earth
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it has taken me
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to realize that growing up
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is not as I though
@hannahb
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