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The Price of Life

January 14, 2014
By Artisanna01 GOLD, Bedford, New York
Artisanna01 GOLD, Bedford, New York
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Favorite Quote:
"I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may."


Human blood is cheaper than
the ink it takes to print
these words—
and just when i thought
some part of me might have
some worth,
a reason to spill black across a page
and to keep rivers of red running
under my paper-white skin...
but my words have more value that what's
keeping my heart beating and even as
i'm screaming, there's no one out there listening.
So maybe you'll understand if
you happen across red outside the confines
of my fragile veins— please realize
i'm just trying to repay all the money i wasted
writing one thousand different "goodbye"s



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