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Not Just Me


This ache in my chest

It doesn't separate me from the rest

Sometimes it gives me stress

Sometimes I become a mess

Down

Breaking bad

Thoughts of what I could've had

Born in a life

That wasn't meant to be mine

The rattles in my bones

Reminds me of what could've been home.

 

He spends everyday locked up in his mind

Trying to find a way to leave all his past behind

He begins to slip away through the cracks

The emptiness inside

Feels like arms taking ahold of him

Squeezing tightly until he can't feel anything

His mind can be a terrible place

A void of inifinite space

He thinks of who he was

Who he is

Who he could be

That indescribable feeling

When everyone and everything feels far and deceiving

In a box of walls and a ceiling

The feeling of barely breathing.

 

No one is listening

No one is listening only hearing

Define happiness

In a world so helpless

Issues piling

People gathering

What're they fighting?

The uneducated wanting to be educated

The educated wanting to be uneducated

Because when you learn more about this world it becomes unappealing

When all the mistakes and chaos keeps repeating

When the tortured and stolen souls seem to go on forever

And no one but their loved ones will remember.

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