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Submitted to Contest #312
CW: Themes of suicide & mental health There was no substance in using my name, for I’ve only known a life of shame. It should have been left along with Mother’s sweet summer memory, underneath a bright canopy of lilies dancing along the valleys with sunshine glowing upon our sheltered backs. Safe and sound, out of the grief-filled snares that were set ablaze by my palms burnt with passion, forgotten fingerprints lost to a maze filled with horrors of the past. I would pick up my pen, laid upon the crumpled collected parchment to relay my ...
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