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Melancholic Inception

Deliver me into my hell, Load up the shotgun shells. Save the words I will not hear, I’ve decided to live in fear. I’ll bury my pain in these scars, As the PTSD sets off alarms. If peace is money, I have no wealth It’s hard to win a war against yourself. Sometimes I wish I couldn’t love, So I could abandon what’s above. Sanity was banished far before, I was enlisted in this war. If peace is money, I’ll always be poor I can predict the weather, but can’t change the storm. Bury me beneath my memories, Suffocate me inside my agony, This is where I want to be, This is who I can’t defeat…

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Date: 3/2/2020 2:50:00 PM
Sobering thoughts from some deep scars, well described Christian...
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