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Nights Awake

April 27, 2011
By shoutitloud SILVER, Woodbridge, Virginia
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shoutitloud SILVER, Woodbridge, Virginia
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Life is a little w e i r d, and we are all a little w.e.i.r.d.. and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatable with ours, we join together in a mutal weirdness and call its l.o.v.e<3

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Insomnia is my puppeteer,
her binding strings attached to my limbs,
yanking and tugging me into a cruel tango.
With a smirk she invites Fatigue
to paint me with his heavy strokes,
adorning me with exhaustion.
Lurking in her shadows,
Rest attempts to visit me, to no avail.
Her red lips curled in a scowl,
she banishes him and twists my strings,
leaving me
spinning
spinning
never
stopping.

© Julie S., Marblehead, MA

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