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Best World On A String Poems


World On a String
World on a string
By Michelle Morris
23/11/2022

You want everyone to think
You've got the world on a string
But no one seems to realise
You're struggling with everything

All your parties and excess
Your fun and carefree attitude
Is a front for the dark reality that
You're in deeper than you should be

It's...

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Categories: world on a string, courage, life, meaningful, motivation,
Form: Lyric
Opportunity
I never asked much 
of this world 
only an opportunity
a chance
That’s all
Nothing big
Simply something small
A crack that I 
could crawl through
A few bits of string
to weave as birds do
when they build their nest
into a rope to climb
out of the darkness
of this cold barren crater
into which...

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Categories: world on a string, bird, pain, poverty, sad,
Form: Free verse

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