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Learn to Fall
I get it, you have it worse,
I get it, you're in pain,
I get it, I don't matter,
Not to you, anyway.
So when you call my name,
I shall fast come running,
Leave myself behind,
Even as I'm losing time.
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Hidden From Sight
I put on a sweatshirt,
Put on some pants,
Summer is coming,
And I don’t stand a chance.
I go downstairs knowing,
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The Questions of Your Words
You tell me to just let it go and forgive,
Yet whenever I try, you remind me of my sins,
I just want to let it go.
But you can’t help but call me crazy,
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The Girl Inside
It’s only been a few days and sadness feels so far away
This feeling, it isn’t salvation
The girl who used to scream for others pains is shut out
She fights to be free, to make me suffer for something I don’t feel nor control
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Still Here
Did you ever know how much your pain hurt me?
That it haunted my sleep?
That I tried to feel it?
That I cared even then?
Loves
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fading freedom
Protest after protest,
chant after chant.
I watch and listen
as people continuously fight for their rights.
But the fighting should’ve been over
on July 4th, 1776
when it was declared that
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blood, white, and blue
It's 12:34 AM on July 5th, 2025 and I still see fireworks going off in the sky.
I hear the booms, the bangs, the commotion of endless fireworks
going on for hours
still raging
on a brand new day.
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It's gone but I still remember
I'm smiling to myself,
remembering,
reminiscing,
the good times.
The times where it was you,
and me,
against the world.
Who would stop us?
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249th
blow out your candles.
make a wish.
hold up a protest sign.
tonight the fireworks spell R E S I S T.
your hair's in pigtails braided red blue and white.
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Took the Fall
Each problem, each issue, each time
I hope you change, I take the blame
Pretending I’m okay, I’m fine
But in the end, you stay the same
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Next to you
Next to you
Not a big deal
Natural
Normal
Eyes
Joking
Teasing
I could touch you
The bracelet on your wrist
Our bracelet
I could talk to you about it
I'd lose my train of thought