Your Poetry Dot Com - A Shell Exhumed

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in a dysfunctional frame
vicious cycles
settings stuck on survival

month after month after month goes by
other caterpillars get to fly
I can’t speak ‘cause the words in my head
they would say are better left unsaid
so I shut my mouth and smile and nod
yeah I’ll just keep wearing this façade

unfinished art
missing pieces, bleeding heart
a gaping wound
hollow as a shell exhumed

tell me, how can I feel at home here
where hope is always smothered by fear?
at every single turn of the page
by this body I am so betrayed
and what I have taken for granted
becomes less clear than strange tongues chanted

so what am I?
how can I identify
just what makes me
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A Shell Exhumed
Date: Monday, 16th September 2019 @ 02:40:03 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: MoonlitAngel

trapped every day
in a dysfunctional frame
vicious cycles
settings stuck on survival

month after month after month goes by
other caterpillars get to fly
I can’t speak ‘cause the words in my head
they would say are better left unsaid
so I shut my mouth and smile and nod
yeah I’ll just keep wearing this façade

unfinished art
missing pieces, bleeding heart
a gaping wound
hollow as a shell exhumed

tell me, how can I feel at home here
where hope is always smothered by fear?
at every single turn of the page
by this body I am so betrayed
and what I have taken for granted
becomes less clear than strange tongues chanted

so what am I?
how can I identify
just what makes me
a woman now, honestly?

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