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Paper, Rock, Scissors

June 10, 2012
By Born-to-save GOLD, Asheville, North Carolina
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"Keep acting the way you are. That way when I die for you, I die alone"

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I am paper

dripping wet with water

dead and decaying

then when someone says they need me

I am a rock

standing strong with power

protecting and holding them up

then when someone gets hurt

I am scissors

razor sharp with vengeance

deadly and angry

then I am left alone

and I see myself

as a lost little boy

with nothing and no one

© Tabatha B., Peoria, IL

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