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What to do when your at boarding school


I didn't ask to be sent away, All I wished for was a normal brain, Is it so wrong for deep lines of red, To have been stacked on top of my every skin? So what to do at a boarding school, When all you can do is cry, Been here 3 months so far, And I still want to die. Mother cannot help, Nor any of my friends, I'm stuck in a place of hell, With no way to get my tragic end. They say I'll be happy, That I'll learn to not hurt, All of my trauma disappeared, But how is that true? If I'm only getting worse. Sure I see things, And sure I don't cope normally, But who could really blame me? When I was born abnormally. So what to do when you're stuck at Clearview Girls Academy, Is to stay to yourself, Suffer alone, And try to rewrite your own tragedy.
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They/them lowk stuck in a boarding school for coo coo heads just vent stuff mostly

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Deeply personal autobiography about boarding school, mental health, self-harm.

SparseMeasureDense

Multiple ideas densely packed: institutional critique, trauma, isolation, peer support.

DarkSentimentBright

Strongly negative throughout: suicidal ideation, despair, hopelessness, worsening condition.

StillEnergyExplosive

Urgent, confrontational tone with rhetorical questions and declarative statements.

MicroLengthEpic

29 lines falls within 16-30 range.

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Minimal ornament; mostly plain declarative language with limited metaphor/comparison.

LyricVoiceDramatic

Pure lyric internal monologue; direct first-person confessional voice throughout.

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