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by Faye Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Emotional · #1580838
Just a short message to the adults in my life.
Your words are forever strewn across the sky
Red slashes above a shimmering sun
Your face is embedded in every cloud I see
A looming shadow, trapping my mind in darkness.


Your casual remarks burn me every time
A fire of self-hatred and jealousy
Of all the others you find no fault in
But I have to rise from the ashes where you leave me.


I will never cease to be attached to you
Even after you have long gone
And so the mistakes I have made in your presence
Will always be over me, a reminder that I am failing.

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