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#3831voted by our readers
By Rhiannon_4 DIAMOND
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Nothing I do is ever enough I always live in someone else’s shadow My true self I bury down below I am carved from pain I am misunderstood I would open my mouth to compl...
Rhiannon_4 DIAMOND, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
62 articles 87 photos 200 comments

Favorite Quote:
If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both. <br /> - Native American proverb<br /> <br /> Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.<br /> - Dylan Thomas<br /> <br /> What is past is past -- it is the present and the future that concern us.<br /> - Hiawatha, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy


#3832 Poetry
By mahrukh2001 BRONZE
Islamabad, Other
mahrukh2001 BRONZE, Islamabad, Other
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#3833 Poetry
By sholly BRONZE
Eugene, Oregon
sholly BRONZE, Eugene, Oregon
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
#3834 Poetry
By deathsangel16 BRONZE
South Hill, Virginia
deathsangel16 BRONZE, South Hill, Virginia
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Never try to fit in with a crowd, because fitting in will make you become a person that you didn't know you could be, and it will change your entire life in that instant...."

#3835 Poetry
By mcompton BRONZE
Louisville, Kentucky
mcompton BRONZE, Louisville, Kentucky
1 article 1 photo 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
All the words on a stage and all the men and women merely players. <br /> They have their exits and their entrances; <br /> And one man in his time plays many parts.

#3836 Poetry
By skstory BRONZE
Metairie, Louisiana
skstory BRONZE, Metairie, Louisiana
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#3837 Poetry
By riya_kharode PLATINUM
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
riya_kharode PLATINUM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
22 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"though I may be going down, I'm taking flame over burning out" -sara bareilles, uncharted

ehsmith BRONZE, Frisco, Texas
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
#3839 Poetry
crazesam1 GOLD, Dhaka, Other
14 articles 17 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
They broke the wrong parts of me-anonymous

#3840 Poetry
By ElaM ELITE
Surrey, Columbia
ElaM ELITE, Surrey, Columbia
321 articles 27 photos 120 comments

Favorite Quote:
“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party; and I attended with my real face.” ~Franz Kafka