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What it means to be me


This is what it means to be me.

The trials and the errors

They all make you feel like a terror.

You hurting your family

You feel is a total tradgedy

That goes on and on until

It is time to go to the place your life will

wither away until all that is left is a husk,

A pile of dust,

As well as some energy that will go too.

 

You try not to deny 

The ones that you would die for,

But to protect them from the monster inside,

You must reject them using a web of lies.

You pretend there are no monsters around, 

keeping you up and torturing you,

but there is no denying the truth.

 

All this plus more

This is what it means to be me.

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