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Breathe In
We find
Inside ourselves
Things we never thought we would
Our well kept secrets.
Inner desires
They are pulled out of us by a string that tugs at our hearts
It weakens them, or makes them stronger
Each breath we take is like
Breathing in the innocence
And impurities of the world around us
We learn to adapt, to grow, to change
To survive
To heal, and be wounded, and wound others
Sometimes our souls leak desperation
From this containment,
inside this box that we carry with us
We find inside our own Pandora’s box
Disaster, destruction and a glimpse of hope
Our morals soon mean nothing to our bleeding souls
that call out in the dark for the things we once had
The things that kept us safe, and protected
We become savages
Just another part of the untamed world we live in,
But all the hope in this world doesn’t wash the pain away
One day we lose our innocence
Our well kept secrets have a way of getting out.
We can not patch the holes in our hearts
so we make holes in the hearts of those around us
Then we breathe out…
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