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Your Cynical Peace Offering

February 28, 2014
By haley101 DIAMOND, Windsor, Connecticut
haley101 DIAMOND, Windsor, Connecticut
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Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.&rdquo;<br /> <br /> ― Mary Oliver


i am a scar
transparent
yet prominent and
alarming,

a story,
an effect of
pain so numb
it demands to be felt.

i am a scar,
you’ll look at me
one day and truly see

how this haggard
hyperbolic
surreal reality
has crushed my
identity, and formed me

i am hot clay
causing blisters on your hands
twisted and prodded into something
beautiful
conforming to your
idea of lovely

a black flower,
that you give to others.


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for Eric Morgen

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