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Words.


Words.

Words are chains.

Chains that stop feelings.

Words can never truly say it.

Or truly feel it.

Words are shackles.

Yet words are keys.

That unlock the prison.

Of a struggling mind.

And free the thoughts of a lost soul.

Words not precise.

But words that tell stories.

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