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Snow White

Snow White
Laci Nelson

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
Do I even know myself at all
Who is this person in the glass
Is that my face, or just a mask...

Reflections are so easy on the eyes
when eyes are blind and so are lies
I'm scared of what I cannot see
I'm scared of what I might not be...

I stare into the deep brown holes
And try to look into my soul
Behind a wall I've built up strong
Are my intentions good or maybe wrong...

I grasp these thoughts 
this strange unknown
of who I am and what i dont yet know
Im only me, a hopeless girl
living in an even more hopeless world...

I know I dont know 
who we are
I know i dont know 
where to fall
when living gets old and old gets older
to feel what its like when life is over...

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
So whose the fairest of them all?
It's not the beauty for which i search
but things of intangibilty that just might lurk...

Behind our skin that hides our souls
Behind those thoughts we do not know
They say that Beauty is only skin deep 
Which leaves a decision of which to keep
Your body or your soul...

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Oxymoron

Oxymoron
Voices whisper little screams
Sweet little lies of corrupted innocence
Made up of words of numbers
And put forth in screams of silence
I walk inside the exit
Looking for what I can’t get
Take a left down the right side
Into the outside,
And realize exactly where I am
Lost
My rights make more wrongs
While my wrongs make me feel right
About who I am, who I am 
Not
The same old faces 
I never knew
Same old places
They still aren’t you
Or me
The same honest lies
unjustfully true
The evidence of no traces
Lead me to exactly to 
Where I will not find you
Away from it all
Stuck in the middle
Of a crowd where I hide
Alone
Someone follows 
Right behind my steps 
That I do not take
So I start walking
Backwards
And yes I will
Make a perfectly correct mistake
Who are you?
Where are you?
You and you and you….
I’m not me.

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Slave

Change my mind, my heart, my soul

I wonder if I am broken

Challenge my thoughts, my spirit, my pride

I still have not yet spoken

Take my hand and pull me near

But be aware that I might fear

The closeness that comes with touching.

 

Tell me your secrets, tell me your lies

your deepest thoughts are nothing in size

to what I feel

to what I dream

to why and what 

and when I leave

this world behind and move along

I may be mistaken,

But I'm not wrong

 

These words are my attempt to change

a person who was once a slave

to who she did not know

A story told, a story lost

a compromise of pen and thoughts

I cannot even begin to show

of who is what and what I know

Trying gets me closer, true

But emotions still get caught

deep inside they smelter

my dying ember of a heart.

 

Now hope is gone

but yet it's found

It reawakens with the sound

of life beating my mind awake....

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Euphoria

I walk outside
The wind is blowing
my thoughts away

I stand up straight
and it cuts right through me
giving me a sense of euphoria
bringing out my insecurities

Its strange those words
contrandict eachother
yet form such a 
justifying sentence

They cancel eachother out
leaving me with nothing
but a blank piece of paper
covered with meaningless words

Perhaps instead,
I should have said
The wind is blowing
my mind away.....

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The Unspoken Life

Sometimes I speak
just to make sure
the words still come out of my mouth
with sense

I never really 
say the things 
I truly mean,
those thoughts come out 
so much easier 
on paper

I think the world 
is a shallow, heartless place
to spend forever
dwindling away,
dying

So I make sense of this doom
with ridicule and humor
even though I understand
Life isn't funny

So what is it?

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Out of My Head

Dont you ever wonder

Just what life can be

If only you knew the answer

How easy it might seem

You see, we are all prisoners

stuck hopelessly inside our own skin

we never know if what we know

is worth the keeping in

how can we be who we are

if who we are is not

we are all what weve created 

in hopes of being not

just another person

in an even more hopeless world

our thoughts become our passions

and passions are easily lost

to who we know and what they know

we affect our every thought

a war of who who is better

a war of endless hope

a war to try to figure out

if we are what we have hoped

so tell me this with honesty

and tell me this to see

if you are you and i am me

and we become what we cant be

then how are we to live?