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February 6, 2026

even my nightmares

are better than how my life fares

"get her"

is heard as it prepares

save your tears, and–

stop looking at your peers

oh,

stop to look at your peers

and save your tears

now go sleep in your spheres–

lest this heart leave its spears

staying awake brings no cheers

hasn't that been made clear to your ears?

everyone swears

say everyone cares

but when you're not in pairs

that's just plain affairs

when I'm never yours

and you never mine

I will never be chosen

never in both ears

never priority number one

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▾ This Poem's Voice

Personal isolation and rejection, grounded in speaker's lived experience.

Dense accumulation of ideas: nightmares, peer pressure, exclusion, unrequited belonging compressed tightly.

Overwhelmingly negative: despair, rejection, loneliness, social alienation throughout.

Agitated voice with repetition, exclamatory demands, sharp emotional intensity and urgency.

Approximately 20-25 lines; falls in 16-30 range.

Metaphor (heart leaving spears), personification (heart/tears), some symbolic language mixed with declarative statements.

Pure lyric internal monologue; direct first-person emotional confession without dramatic distance.

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