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Years

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Hazel Pierce
Years

My eyes stare into space,Ā 
I drown in my own thoughts,
suffocation is all that I feel.Ā 

My heart thumps, my lungs gasping for the relief of air that I know will never come.Ā 

Reaching out I watch as the last bit of light escapes from my fingertips and the darkness swallows me whole.

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Poetry Genre: 
Speculative
Topic: 
The Soul
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Marion

Like this one too...thanks for sharing ?

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Being Me

This is exactly how I felt a few years back when I had a particularly nasty breakdown... Exactly. Pinned because your words really hit home ? x

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Hazel Pierce

I know what you mean, I went through a hard time to. But it feels like when Iā€™m writing it down Iā€™m letting it go.

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laurette

little and powerful ..niceĀ 
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