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Are you ok? Funny you should ask Do you really care? Well let me tell you My heart is shattered My voice is gone My tears have dried There is no trace The words I've been given Stuffed in a hole The ideas that spark Put out by life The horrors of reality The simplicity of death A breath is stifled Before it could live Am I ok? No, indeed not My heart has fallen Into the haze My smile A thing of the past My laugh Tainted by sorrow The words on my lips Shall never be uttered The truth in my soul Hidden forever The story of my life Written before lived Has a ending so near If only I could read it The stars in their knowledge Seem so very far A wish to be granted Only once more Death is an allure Life is reality Pain passes on Still scars bear the tale Of one who lived Who braved the world And kept their heart Broken evermore Yet those scars Are what Shame and people use To break you down And glue you into What is acceptable And right for them And once they see A crack in the armor They push in deeper And blame you for breaking Pulling you apart piece by piece Until they see what's underneath Then they turn away And deny the truth Because they see what they want to see No one knows you were made this way But do you care? Are you listening? Or am I just a box To check on your way? Would you really stay here If you saw the real me? Will you let me cry Without drying my tears? No you won't And thats alright I'm used to being alone I really don't mind If you feel better Talking to me By all means Let me brighten your day I know someday Someone will ask Are you ok? And you will lie Everyone does it It's what's expected No one needs to hear No wants to care You have chains So do I From birth until death Together we fight In our own ways Defying destiny But for now our paths sever Until we meet again Are you ok? I'm fine You sure? ...yea
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