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Shattered Into Invisible Pieces MAG
Please stop fighting
 Please, please, please, please stop
 Just stop
 Please just get along 
 Remember me? You all said you loved me, prove it
 Please stop it for me
 
 You think because I'm not the one your shouts are aimed at
 That I'm not harmed
 But I am hurting
 I'm being ripped apart inside
 Into three parts
 One part of me for each of you
 They were once joined together
 But now I can't even force them together
 I can't sew up the holes forming between them
 Not even with my strings of tears and pleas
 
 Every word out of your mouths
 Causes the holes to swell
 Filling more and more of me with empty but painful space
 
 Even when you talk to me,
 Saying I'm glad you're not like him
 Meaning it as a compliment,
 It hurts as the holes expand
 You say please don't be like that when you grow up
 You say you can't take it
 You say you'll just be happy when I grow up
 
 Are you happy now?
 I've finally grown up
 And I'm not like that
 I'm not fighting back
 Or rebelling
 I'm staying silent
 I'm trying not to cry out
 And show you the pain I've kept locked away
 I hope you can take it
 Because I can't much longer
 I've finally matured
 My vision of my perfect family
 Has finally shattered

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