Ana Podarevska Poems

We say that we're too good for this world
And maybe we are right.
We were innocent youth, until they sold our rights.
Our bodies aren't our bodies, they are owned by our nation.
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Give her pearls and she'll hide behind them
like she doesn't know the world. Use their beauty
to cover her scars. No one knows who you are,
no one knows what's inside. You'd think she's so
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Lipstick on my teeth,
Smeared.
Mascara in my eye,
Sharp.
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I'm blue against your skin
I'm dead against your eyes.
You can't believe in yourself when you're believing my lies.
My knife in disguise, your life in demise.
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Protection hidden for protection
in the back of an old childhood toy.
Looking for a new direction
to hide the smell of sex and smoke.
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I never knew, I never had a doubt.
My drug I couldn't live without.
I never knew, I never realized
just how much I lied.
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your voice in my head
my blood in your bed
in my head- it is red
convulsing and squirming
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I wonder why the knife is useless on your skin,
when it slices through mine to the bone.
I want to know just how submissive
I have been to all your sin.
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This water is deeper than the world is shallow
These drugs are your God, and just as hollow.
In my mind I'm not blind, although my eyes wander
I know you're too far gone to be found.
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somehow i found where to tread
romancing all your regrets.
contradicting words i said
contradicting my regrets.
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