"Red"

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Her mind’s a

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mess

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A domain of endless

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stress

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Knotted and tangled, pent up and

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locked down

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Living a life she can’t appreciate or fathom 

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She doesn’t know why she feels this way…

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Why

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she can’t possibly

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get over every

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Problem. She tricks her mind with the

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party

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Lured into the lie that with it she’d be

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Happy.

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But nothing ever changes, this pattern

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Isn’t     helping,           she       learns,

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And yet she continues,            in

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false hope

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That these trials will trail off

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And dissolve

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amid amber     bubbles

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And

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Red

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cups with white foam… that all her   troubles

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Would fade away in the                      bottle

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And yet she sees that it’s        killing her, it

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boggles

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Her mind.                    She wonders

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why nothing

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Is working.

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Inside her

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Anger

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Frustration

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Confusion

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and shame are                                     lurking

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smirking         

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She looks Up for help, for Someone to hear her                    cry

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For Someone to see all the tears that don’t get                       dried

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While alone in her bed,

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For Someone to see her eyes puffy and

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Red.

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For Someone to tell her the deep        secret

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That one mystery that she can’t understand.

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Why is she feeling this                                                way?

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Why is nothing she’s doing                                                     helping?

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Why is she not                                                             okay?

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She pushes friends away, people she loves,

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And then can’t understand why nothing is never enough,

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She grasps on to the                jerks

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Plunges her head into the                    books

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In reclusion, she is                  dead                 quiet

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As the room around her is                              silent

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She stares into             harsh   white lights

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Fearing every              cold     dark night.

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She’s breaking −                                 she knows

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It’s obvious; a shiver runs down her bones.

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She’s sorry, but still can’t shake this.

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She needs                                                        peace

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 freedom from                                                 distress.

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Something                               more.

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She looks

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Up

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For release.

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….I hope she finds what she                                                   needs,

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…I hope for her, that one day she will easily                         breathe,

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Hope she is not           pained             in her                                      stress

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And that Life gives what        only     is the                                       best:

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Love and laughter.

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I hope her blue eyes sparkle and

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red 

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hair

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shimmers

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once                             again

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…And I hope she knows that I am here

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always her

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friend.