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I’m not usually like this.

I’m not vicious, and I’m not mean.

But I put up with, and go along with

a lot of bullshit, it seems to me.

But, you don’t hear me screaming…

 

I come from a long, long line of failures,

so if I succeed, will I be failing inevitably?

 

No.

I don’t want to be like them.

I don’t want to have to pretend to be

something I could never be.

I don’t want to walk blindly

into something that’s going to bind me.

I need to be free.

 

I’m in need of rest.

I’ve a complex situation:

I don’t like stress, it likes me.

 

I look into the mirror and try to find me,

but this gray and black reflection

in my mind won’t let me.

 

I don’t want to be like them.

I don’t want to have to pretend to be

something I could never be.

And I don’t want to walk blindly

into something that’s going to bind me.

I need to be / free…

So you won’t see me crying…

 

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