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Happy Birthday to you

October 3, 2022
By xxshorty_miraxx SILVER, Five Forks, South Carolina
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The Glance of brown frosting

With the words "Happy 8th Birthday Xxxxxxx"

 

As they sang Happy Birthday to you

Seems so cheerful, I thought

 

I was wrong! 

Nothing was cheerful after that.

 

Voices going at each other

like a warzone

 

The Yank to the head

so quickly, the pain went away too slow

 

Red and Blue lights flashing outside

Becoming Clear that nothing will be the same.

 

Watching tears fall off my face

As someone I love walks away from me

 

Slowly, the red and blue lights fade away

The warzone will always haunt me.

Photo by Stephen Wheeler on Unsplash

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