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Five times the feeling of pain Ten times the feeling of death Fifteen times the feeling of fear That is what losing her felt like I lost a friend A sister A mentor A hero A person who could turn Every frown into a smile Every sob into a laugh All the pain into joy I lost her today I lost her because I wasn’t there to protect her Because I wasn’t there to fight for her I was gone I will never forget her smile Her laugh Her talent Her passion Her love for her family The way she made me see That making the status quo It didn’t matter Only to them They were the ones who wanted to destroy us They were the ones who wanted us dead All they saw were outcasts People who chose to live in the shadows People who chose to be different They say people who they didn’t understand So they filed us away Hated us Because we were different We were unknown We challenged everything that they believed in They feared us because we saw past the fear of tomorrow If we fear death more then pain But death ends the pain Then why don’t we fear pain more then death We say the truth hurts The truth is fact We just add emotion onto it and make it hurt So, the truth is painful because every time we hear it Something inside us breaks But the truth is still fact It will haunt us forever Just like her death They killed her for being one of us For being different For being an out cast They didn’t understand her To many of us they didn’t understand They decided to let three of us live So they chose to kill her They killed my sister My friend My family The one person who I trusted To have my back No matter what What ever the price She watched my back I watched hers Now she is dead Yet she still watches over us Protecting us Keeping us safe from them Freedom is not free She paid the price They still decided to let her die Why her What did she do She defied their laws She made her choice I wish I could have died in her place I wish I could have been there To watch her back Like she did for me Instead I left her She died a hero But hero’s fade The legends will always live on Sly and dangerous The thieves of shadows Three can survive But the rest have died When the world rips itself apart Sometimes family doesn’t have to be blood It can be the people who you live with Who you see everyday Who would give everything to make you smile Family is the people I write for The people I play for The ones who I eat lunch with My family are the ones who watch my back As I have watched theirs The ones who feel my pain Who see what it’s like to be shunned by society Peace Love Nature We admired nature We survived in it Running through the trees Living on just a knife Our lives lying on the sharpness of a blade Living the life of those on the edge Loud music at three in the morning Food fights Pizza stick wars Dance offs You call them a waste of time I call them remembering them The ones who died to keep me alive So next time you think you have it easy You are wrong If you survive On the sharpness of a blade I will say you can be welcomed I have lived under the status quo my whole life She died under the status quo She died a hero But she will not be honored I will remember her I will never forget I will never surrender I will never forgive what they did Go on and try to tear me down I dare you
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