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“
You are little, just a baby, and butterflies flutter in your stomach.
You do not understand.
"What is happening?" you ask, but your inexperienced mind can't explain.
You can't ask others -- you don't know, not yet, how to put it in words.
You grow up, and now you have learned many words for it.
But you have also learned not to talk about it.
Living your life has become daunting ... exhausting.
Your family worries, so you pretend to be alright.
You gather courage and talk to those who will list
...more
”
― The Uncharted Mind
― The Uncharted Mind
“
Spiraling in hollowed caves of skin-stretched me, totally doorless,
Emptied of vital parts, previously evicted finally
by landlord mind
To make nerve-lined living space, needed desperately by my transient, sightless, sleepless,
Soul.
”
― Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
― Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
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