I Can See Me Poem

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I can see me....changing...

...Parts...of me...are rearranging...

and I don't know...who it is... I'm turnin into...

But suffice to say... it... feels an...awful... lot... like you...

This is not what I set out to...do..

- or- who I thought I could be... I can see...me changing...

The tides within... are ....raging...

And...I know! I know! I should spend less time... feelin'...sorry...for...myself...

But c'mon, tell me what else... is there? to do...

When your walls .....are....

continually crumbling, shattering, falling down... around...you...

you go through it, because you just...couldn't... let it go...

you let it follow you... and make itself at... home...

this heavy sadness brought you to your knees inside...

...but it was so...clear to
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are ....raging...

I thought I could be...so much more... but I weaken...so fast... from the weight of... this world...

Gravity keeps... on... pushing this rise...back down toward the floor...

And...I know! I know! I should spend less time... feelin'...sorry...for...myself...

But why...should...I...

When I can...Just...BLAME YOU!

For every little thing that....I just...CAN'T DO..

I can see me changing into...someone who... truly...hates me...

...Feels an awful lot...like you...

You always had a way of escaping yourself...

...aren't you aware you... were... self medicating to death..

Why do you hold the pain...in...

This need for control...controls... you...

your need to keep a tight grasp on your dreams... consumes you...

....your own self entirely...illudes.you...

Once something is taken away...staring in regret...you stay.. bitter at the very day...

It all fell apart... and went away...

why did you let... yourself...just....slip away...

With all of this you became...

Cut your wrists or cut your losses,

this is never...what I wanted...

I'm so exhausted from clawing my way out of...this darkness...

And I feel helpless as I watch...

Watch me...changing into

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