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Haunting Memories The Safety Zone It feels like I have wind chimes in my feet The tingling feeling is that intense Pins and needles keep pestering me But obedience is my best defense Every single step is a painful memory Of the childhood I never got to see Walking on glass eggshells metaphorically Watching my feet continually bleed Too young to understand what was happening So obediently I tried to be brave Every night I had to cry myself to sleep I hadn't even lived yet but wished for my grave Punishment handed out like it was an offering Like my pain was some sort of sadistic prize Hiding away in the backyard that covered me Holding my breath and closing my eyes bmdavey@05/18/16

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Date: 9/17/2016 3:56:00 PM
Great job!! I really liked your poem!
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Brian Davey
Date: 3/25/2017 8:51:00 AM
Thank you
Date: 5/31/2016 10:39:00 AM
Congratulation my lovely friend for your beautiful win. Loved always, bl
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Brian Davey
Date: 6/3/2016 5:46:00 AM
Many thanks BL
Date: 5/28/2016 3:23:00 PM
Thank you so much for entering my contest.... Brian... Linda
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Brian Davey
Date: 5/28/2016 6:35:00 PM
Thank you for hosting another great contest my friend!
Date: 5/23/2016 12:58:00 PM
Wow! This is awesome, awesome and so awesome. This piece is heartfelt and deeper than deep.
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Brian Davey
Date: 5/23/2016 6:24:00 PM
Thank you for your praise I appreciate it very much
Date: 5/21/2016 6:44:00 PM
Excellently done, a very deep thought. My favorite too. A +7. It's reality for many, i can feel. Loved always my lovely friend, bl
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Brian Davey
Date: 5/23/2016 2:42:00 AM
Proud to make your favorites list BL, thank you for your wonderful praise
Date: 5/21/2016 5:29:00 PM
about my sad dizain, it actually IS my way of thinking, and I am a huge fan of writers like Stephen King! Anyway, I saw this poem before, so let me hunt down one I have not yet seen!!
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Brian Davey
Date: 5/23/2016 2:41:00 AM
I didn't mean it in a bad way I just really had never read too much of your work geared towards that type! I apologize if I misspoke which I know I did now because of your split personalities poem I just read for my contest!
Date: 5/19/2016 10:16:00 AM
Sad but beautiful Brain!
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Brian Davey
Date: 5/19/2016 2:00:00 PM
Thank you Sara
Date: 5/19/2016 12:58:00 AM
It sounds very painful, Brian. Sorry if it really happened to you. (love the first line about wind chimes in your feet).
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Brian Davey
Date: 5/19/2016 1:59:00 PM
thanks Andrea and for the record it wasn't me my parents were great but it did happen to someone I am very close to
Date: 5/18/2016 11:25:00 PM
good poem Brian.
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Brian Davey
Date: 5/19/2016 1:57:00 PM
thank you very much

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