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Ghost in a Shell

A Poem

By Atomic HistorianPublished 3 years ago • Updated 3 years ago • 1 min read
Ghost in a Shell
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Life is hell

I’m just a ghost in a shell

No one to know me

No one to tell

My story to

Because they can’t relate

Is this my fate

To wander this earth

Always looking for what I’m worth

A horde of questions

Coming from every direction

The few that I find like me make me happy

Until life separates us

Aping an existence

That long ago I felt lost in

What am I doing here

Should I even be here

Is this why I can’t stay in one place

Always a stranger with a familiar face

No place to call my own

A place to call home

With friends of my own

I have my family

So I know I exist

But at other times

I wonder am I really here

Or am I just somewhere else

Imagining what it would have been like

What it be like

To exist in the life of others

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