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The Tide Will Come Out Of Your Mouth

SMASH!

Every time the glass of your skull

Crashes into the fist of another memory

To crush you where you stand

Because another memory has broken you

Because another memory has entered you

Like intruders, they force their way inside

They punch their way into your attention

They invade your heart

Until you must look at them

All so that they can violate you again

They...

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PRETTY PINK

I remain broken

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Pretty pink.

Soft, baby pink.

Gentle, rose petal pink.

Full of love, heart shaped pink.

Lipstick for the ladies pink.

Sickly-sweet icing pink.

Prim and proper,

don’t get your dress dirty,

pink.

Pink.

Pink.

Pills.

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“You’re such a girl,” he jokes,

As I refuse the offer, of one of his, ‘smokes.’

His eyes alive wit...

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New and Improve

I will not let one
walk over me like I had before
beacause, now inside
there's a more refined person
of me you'll find.

A better person,
a more wise kind of gale,
a growing person
whose faith will never stop.

Her mind and heart
Is new and improved.

She will not brake,
she will not fall again,
she will rise from beneath
all her broken dreams and hopes
you created within her.
I...

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