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Don’t Tell (Yourself)

January 17, 2012
By __horizon133 PLATINUM, Portage, Michigan
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__horizon133 PLATINUM, Portage, Michigan
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"laugh, and the world laughs with you. laugh hysterically, and for no apparent reason, and they will leave you alone." anonymous

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Don’t tell yourself that
You’re all right; don’t
Tell yourself to sleep
At night: I hear
You’re crying in your head
Don’t tell yourself you’re better dead
You mean so much to someone else
To hurt them in an act of self
Ish defiance: I wish defiance
Could become self reliance,
Instead of inhumane;
This cutting,
Won’t help pain.

© Lauren P., Spartanburg, SC

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don't lie to yourself. that's stupid.
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