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What They Don't Know Will Kill Them.

July 7, 2011
By EmptySoul SILVER, Milaca, Minnesota
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No one can hurt me as much as I can hurt myself.

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I cry
at night
alone
in my room
every night.
They never hear me,
because I am a silent weeper.
If I ever
say the truth
out loud
I will surely shatter
into tinny bits,
and fall beneath their line of vision.
Not that they will ever notice my absence.

© Jenn H., Marblehead, MA

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