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No room for doubt

A chair calling the anxiety I call bad, misinterpreted.

A doll covering a hole in the ground calling my shallowness vague.

Through the light, where I can see, leave me no room for doubt.

 

 

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Wild is the wind

New SZN, old news

Happy change.

The blue that was blue, is blue.

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Entropy

Time is a bomb and love is a laserquest

I jump into the lone stream

Where can we travel as one dream

How can I ask of myself where to go from my dream...

 

Almost necessary to beg

But why isn't it so obvious?

 

Ticking clock and it's embarrassingly consequential tock

looking down on me

An heir of words doused with troubling thoughts

and feelings

Evinced with reg...

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To be a Stranger

Help me

My foot is now nothing but a cast

Walking the part, talking the talk

2 seconds in the dirt, I have to ask

Help me

To be a Stranger is to be estranged 

I'm hurt, somebody should know my name

I can stretch my hand, I can dance again

So go ahead and ask

 

I won't be a stranger again

 

Cause I'm scared of the other, not the new but the other

The darkness ...

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Autism Loneliness

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