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I think I finally understand myself
The reason why happiness and sadness
Live simultaneously inside me
At times one or the other fully consumes me
Never balanced, never truly present
I think I’ve figured it out
My melody, my malady
You see, I’m in between
On the constant move
Not fully here, not fully there
Half present, half gone
Now here is the thing I cannot say
Even to those who know me me the best
I’m stuck between life and death
Longing for each side but not being on either end
Would they understand the longing?
Would everything finally make sense?
Or like me would they judge me and want to shake me till I wake?
There is no right answer, only the truth
I’m stuck in between
Not fully here, not fully there
I have to force myself to be here, now!
Isn’t that where life is?
Split down the middle
Living halfway, in half truths, in half loves
Always pulling back
I must choose to live!
Leave the in between where no life is
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Lily
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Silence
I don’t remember the day the world ended. But I do remember the day I noticed. That photo was it, but I did not know what it meant until I sat in my darkened bathroom, staring at the newly developed film. The street was neither empty, nor abandoned. It was dead. The colours of the flowers wrapped in that red ribbon caught my eye, and as I crouched to take that photo, I could hear only the lonely silence of a graveyard after dark.
By Alexander McEvoy7 days ago in Fiction
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