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The easy way is not an option

January 24, 2011
By WriterFighter PLATINUM, Wilsonville, Other
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WriterFighter PLATINUM, Wilsonville, Other
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*Women and men are very different, but not when it comes down to their heart

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A mark.
Can you tell the difference between sharp edges and a mark apart?
Will a meaning heal your soul?
Or will it cause havoc releasing poisonous truth to let roll.
Does the sharp edge heal your pain?
As you tear open and reveal hot blood through your veins.
Or will it taunt you as you think of easy escapes.
Through many symbols and bloodlines too, many emerge with a little crazy waiting to reach to.
To a world less suffocating.
To a world less moving.
When in doubt, never consider a mark or sharp edges as an out.

© Julia R., Bethesda, MD

The author's comments:
Many of our friends seek easy ways out, meaning drugs, alcohol, cutting wrists and self torture. This reflects on some of those issues. I'm trying to get through the message that you can be stronger than that. That there are ways to get around the pain, and searching for the easy way out isn't always it. It's never it.
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