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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Experience · #1971254
We are forever trying to find ourselves. 20 lines
After your eyelids part
for the first time,
how long is it before
you become a whole person?
Discovering and accepting yourself
are impossibly daunting tasks -
painstakingly slow.
Dragging your feet through each day
doesn't really bring you
any closer to an identity.
With every lesson you learn,
the more your bones begin to ache.
You'll forever be waiting
for that unimaginable promised epiphany,
but your ears will fall deaf
from repetitive false affirmations
before you ever,
find a sense of self.
You will die your own mystery,
and become erased from time.
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