Montaha Gasir

Kind souls,
In dark places.
Or pure hearts,
In dreadful spaces.
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My mind has a trick,
It plays on me.
I look in the mirror,
What do I see?
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A hole,
A dark, empty place.
Alone,
A suffocating space.
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Tell me something,
I'm greatly needing.
What do you do,
When your heart is bleeding?
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Splish, splash,
The elixir splashes.
Fire burning,
My life in ashes.
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Innocent features,
Staring at you.
Pure intentions,
Could it be true?
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I go through the motions,
Of raging oceans.
Trying to deal,
With tumbling emotions.
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Sixty-five.
Fill me with shame.
They want me to play,
The hunger game.
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Scorching sun,
And days on the beach.
Or peaceful snows,
To the sea they reach.
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My dreams and ambitions,
So high in the sky.
But they want to ground me,
"Stay here till you die".
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1,2,
Begin the count.
My calming strategies,
I try to recount.
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Don't trust a soul,
Because friends betray.
You'll sit and watch,
As they turn you to prey.
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I sat by the river bend,
Contemplating death.
When he joined me,
Without uttering a breath.
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Awful creatures,
All around,
Spit harmful words,
That weigh a pound.
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My friend asked me,
"My bird of a feather,
How are you always,
So well put together? "
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I look around and all I see,
Are grand figures surrounding me.
I wonder if I'll ever earn,
A place between the ones that turn,
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With the end of the day
With the last sun ray
Tranquillity roams my mind
I leave my thoughts behind
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I work hard day and night.
Clench myself so tight,
For one who does nothing at all,
To say to me, 'be a doll'.
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The moon arises, the sky black coal.
The night darkens my innocent soul.

Darkness creeps into the corners,
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My life I throw away like it's dirt cheap.
For the sake of another, in front of a bus I'll leap.
Inconsiderate to the consequences of my actions,
My flesh for another is of the easiest transactions.
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