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You go off subject
Attack me personally,
someone needs a nap.
What game shall we play?
There's one you call "I love you".
Then push me away.
19 stones in the satchel I carry.
Some are huge and lots are small.
I hoist them up each morn at dawn
And stumble through another day
Looking for a place to put them down.
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Issues, life, well being.  All of it.
I'm in a state of mind.
Let's get this party started.
I'm taking chances.
You won't help yourself.
Don't depend so much on me.
You've grown used to it.
We can't stop talking.
Languages are different,
but we share a smile.
I could not
for the life of me
see anything
past eighteen.
Upon this earth
a terrible curse -
a true bane
of society.

Five years?
Pah -
The only hope I'd ever had,
was to be alive
in the end.
To see what lies
beyond the bend.

And so came
nineteen

...

and twenty

...

and now,
nearly thirty.

I am still looking
beyond the bend.
By the Gods,
Where does it end?
I stretched my thoughts
and heard them crack;
like dust, they settled on you.
No time to waste,
I must backtrack -
before my heart cracks too.
Thinking of a recent break up
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