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Futures


Everyone expects you to be a failure. "No work ethic. Lazy. Irresponsible." They don't know you. They don't know how hard you work, As long as no one is looking. They don't know how you get in trouble for not doing things Only because you're doing something else. "You'll go nowhere in life if you stay like this." Don't let them make you into themselves. Let's be our own success, and if we aren't, At least we're no one else's mistake. "You're a failure. You can't get anything done for yourself." Prove them wrong. Don't let this world wear you down. We knew from the age of six that we wanted to write. So write. Pen to paper, write our own trail. We're already published at sixteen. I'd love to see how far we are in ten years. I know that love is hard, it's failed us before. But, if no one else will, then we must love ourself. Don't give up on us yet.
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“Write a letter to the person you'll be in 10 years.”

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“My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own brothers” - Job 19:17 || Welcome to my page. I like to write about myself and the things I experience, sometimes metaphorically, sometimes not.

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Mostly personal struggle with some universal commentary on self-worth

SparseMeasureDense

Dense with multiple ideas: perception, self-doubt, resilience, identity, love

DarkSentimentBright

Predominantly encouraging and hopeful despite addressing negativity and failure

StillEnergyExplosive

Urgent imperative voice with exclamatory declarations and confrontational tone

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19 lines falls within 16-30 range

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Minimal figurative language; mostly direct statements with light metaphorical language

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Lyric internal voice with collective 'we' addressing shared experience, not narrative

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