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People like us cannot feel aloud
We hold the world's pain within our own
To mask the anxiety in our words, in our thoughts

We talk about spring and joy
Like we understand where it comes from
Because we felt it once. Briefly

We smile, we laugh, we live
But in truth we're all liars 
We protect ourselves at all costs 

We speak to the mirror because we refuse their answers
Betterment and peace cannot lie out there
Why can't we just fix it

The wailing sirens come for us eventually
But the person that needs them the most
Always backs away, deeper and deeper still

Maybe if we hid and they left
It will go with them
But we would hate ourselves if we tried

Yet life goes on 
And the flashing lights must be appeased
Some thing needs to show proof of life

They answer the door for us
And stand at the window and wave
So that the neighbours know we are home

They absorb what we cannot
The happiness and tenderness
Banalities of life that we struggle to ingest 

You see who you are allowed to
Who we want you to
Who you need to see

We've been burned trying stoke our own fire
So we hold back and just watch
As the glow begins to fade

We refuse to allow a single tear to leave our eyes
Because we know it will not stop at one
It will not stop at all

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