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Forget the lies that we spoke

Suffer the same

Unknown it looms above me

Whispering our names

Still there are things pushed aside

Neglected for those things that we still cannot grasp

And sins we atone

Never again

Stolen from our rage

Our hunger

Bled out into empty wanting

We forge our narratives remade

Skin stretched taut over bone

Trying to deny the mistakes made

Shallow are our hopes

We deny reality

We deny the silence that we kept

Learned through years of bitter endings

Still we are alone

Trying to deny the mistakes made

Stolen from our rage

The words leapt from my throat, now spoken out loud

Their eyes reflecting the doubts that they held

Coalesced into a sense of fear

And the realization that I do not belong here