Two Pitiful Poems

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You needed someone free

Not tied down like me

Although I’m stuck

My soul still wanders

Nothing to prove

Just trying to be

Making the most

Of everything around me

Building character along the way

No solace in any way

Drugs don’t help

Only mask the pain

Of being chained

When you’re wild like me

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I may be pretty

I may be smart

But heed this warning

I’ll tear you apart

First little by little

Then all at once

I leave a trail of men

Whom I’ve undone

I don’t mean the cruelty

The love it’s all real

But the curse I’ve acquired

Will poison you still

So try if you want to

It’ll just hurt us both

The thing you want I can’t give

My hearts as empty as my soul

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