Written April 2 2026 for Ink Empresses contest titled Stars or Home
Sometimes I follow faded stars Lost lonely souls with jaded hearts But brilliant minds indigo smarts Full of wisdom despite their scars The beautiful ones have stories Some of victory of green glory But personally I prefer the gory Truth of failure to be less boring Life makes you like a dog collar Is strangling neck so tight you holler Despite experience status as scholar No matter your position in beauty parlor For beauty is a burning boisterous blade that cuts two ways leaves you spayed For others see you and miscalculate The pain you have inside is dead weight Yet there is a deadly denim denial In creases of your courageous smile They always tell you to be proud To turn a bloody frown upside down A faded star with a hole in red heart Has adjusted to the irony and dark Paths sarcastic laughs of lone sharks Feeding on energy from the flower park Not all pretty faces will win the rat race Someone left behind must lead the way For the rebuilding of the hearts that break For the sacrificial lambs that find faith
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