Emily Myers

Put away your mercy and tools of perfect persuasion
Don't hold me here against my will on this oh so ordinary occasion
My secrets lie within me, there they shall stay until my grave
you're smothering the feelings to which i've become my own slave.
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We carefully search for beauty where beauty never stood
I never did attain it, I knew I never could
The simple shapes of earth cannot satiate my need
I need true beauty; beauty like the world can never see
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I awaken alone; you’re not by my side
Every morning this is what I awaken to find
Only an endless dream, a figment of lust
I reach out to touch you, you slip away like dust
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These embers were a fire, now my tears are dark and ashen
A dream is just a dream until you put it into action
'You are just a girl', they say. I am too naïve
To dream the things im dreaming, which I never can achieve
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i walk in the door and i'm smothered, by people and powder and smoke
not one of them knows of my story, yet all of them wanting my help
take a deep breath full of toxins, exhale the tar tainted air
all of them screaming and bitching at me, do they even notice i'm here?
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You open me up and look inside
To your dismay I'm empty
Nothing worth wasting your time
No sweet refreshing candy
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This empty bottle is my home away from home
A constant place of quiet where I know I can resolve
The issues that plague me day to day
I feel myself begin to slip slowly away…
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Breathing isn’t easy when the world starts to collapse
Falling down in pieces my broken life lands in my lap
Unseeing, I stare into a mirror and wonder if I’m worth it
Picking up the razor I pretend that I’m perfect
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The flashing light surrounds me
I look at it in awe
The black of night unveiled at last
The water starts to pour
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Our children grow up in a world of lies,
broken homes and broken dreams.
A cycle of hate continued through time
where nothing is as it seems.
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I see you, across the room
Haunted eyes catch mine
And I can’t look past
Fear, and pain, love and hate
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Your seductive eyes play me like the piano
which you use to tune your mistruths
Slowly you draw me in with your medicinal vocals
that envelope me in warm, soft tones.
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In vain I cut a vein hoping bleeding stops the breathing
Breathing causes pain, a pain that I don’t feel receding
A door that shatters dreams can silence screams from rising
Fathers hurt their daughters just so they can keep them crying
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The silence- broken only
by the sound of the shovels
dividing the packed earth-
overwhelms the men with
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Beautiful tears slip from graceful eyes
A dancer in her soul, she lives in disguise
Dreams echo in a heart that beats in deceit
She throws her soul from the rooftop conceding defeat
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The starfish cry in terror, afraid to reminisce
Memories swirl around them, secrets clutched between their lips
Slate gray waters churn and burn them, icy to the skin
Tossed upon the shore the panic suddenly sets in
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Crying little girl
who's crying from within
Screaming, dying little girl
whose shouts are never heard.
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In the eyes of a little girl, burns hatred deep and cold
A fire made of ice, a heart made of stone
Carved from the nothingness that has been her whole life
She picks apart her father's wounds, the scars from her own knife
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Here we are.
Is this how its all got to end?
A knife in the back from
the one we considered a friend.
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The firey leaves
grasp at the branches
hoping they can last-
one more hour, minute
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