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Take me back
Take me back to when I was little
 I'd spend all day on the swingset
 And never worry about anything except for
 Someone cutting in front of me in line
 
 Back to when my mom would smile
 And tell me stories about her old pets
 How she had a Rottweiler who’d guard her
 And her show cow that would sit on the porch
 
 My grandma would play games with me
 When I finally learned how to whistle
 I'd whistle spontaneously
 And she'd ask if there was a bird in the house
 
 My aunts would buy me nice gifts
 My neighbor would come over and we'd play together
 I lived on a farm so we were distant from our neighbors
 My family only ever talked to a few
 
 My friends and I would run around acting crazy
 We would sing Hannah Montana songs
 We would have sleepovers regularly
 People were nice
 
 But then something happened
 
 My mom cried a lot because my stepdad would always be drunk
 She told me about all the things he used to do
 His mind would get lost in pictures of naked women
 And he'd sit on the couch and smoke legalized drugs when we weren't home
 
 My grandma since passed away
 My dad used to live with her
 Her house was supposed to go to him and eventually me
 But that didn't happen
 
 My aunt changed her will and got the house for herself
 My neighbor moved away because his sister was suicidal
 My other neighbor killed herself two days before I was going to kill myself
 I found out at school four days after she killed herself
 
 I have few friends and I'm losing my best friend to the popular crowd
 My other friends and I sing Panic at the Disco
 I can't have sleepovers because my house looks like a hoarder’s
 People suck
 
 Now I feel so little in this world
 Sometimes I want to go to the park and swing
 I worry a lot
 Especially about my friends who cut
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