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Your Allowance Costs


i'm someone who's been made to feel. i'm not afraid to trust in my turnt out self. earning my own trust took me respect and self-dignity. i'm up to go impossible depths just to show myself the faithful devotion it takes to instill the trust i need to continue choosing me. And i'm more certain to trust ourselves over anyone else who wants otherwise from me. And this usually sounds something like this.... for the one's that call me "too much" while calling me out as "not enough".... what's the difference of what you think of me and what i think of me? turns out that recognizing my good thoughts, my good words, and my good deeds determines how i walk in a day, not you. i choose for me when i allow you ME cuz it will cost you in the end to lose me more than it'd cost me to lose you. when i'm never lost of myself then i've never found i need you more than i need myself. i've made my choices. will you ever?
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PersonalThemeAbstract

Personal identity and self-trust; grounded in autobiographical experience

SparseMeasureDense

Multiple interconnected ideas about self-worth, trust, choice densely layered

DarkSentimentBright

Assertive, empowering, defiant pride despite addressing criticism

StillEnergyExplosive

Urgent, confrontational voice with rhetorical intensity and bold capitalization

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Approximately 20 lines; falls in 16-30 range

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Some metaphorical thinking about loss and cost; mostly direct declarative statements

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Pure lyric internal voice addressing self and imagined critics introspectively

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