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#3301voted by our readers
By nickykens ELITE
Draper, Utah

Don’t show them you’re real. Don’t reveal your flaws, they don’t care. Keep to yourself, or they’ll pick you apart, don’t show them your flaws. Don’t show them you’re real....
nickykens ELITE, Draper, Utah
134 articles 2 photos 85 comments

#3302 Poetry
By KaraTaylor DIAMOND
Neptune, New Jersey
KaraTaylor DIAMOND, Neptune, New Jersey
81 articles 17 photos 84 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;life isn&#039;t a matter of milestones, but of moments&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;be as you wish to seem.&quot;<br /> <br /> &quot;it&#039;s better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you are not.&quot;

#3303 Poetry
By Anonymous
blank_pages BRONZE, Moore, Oklahoma
2 articles 0 photos 3 comments
#3305 Poetry
By Meru21 GOLD
Desert Hot Springs, California
Meru21 GOLD, Desert Hot Springs, California
17 articles 0 photos 4 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;If I could be any part of you,<br /> I&#039;d be your tears;<br /> To be conceived in your heart,<br /> Born in your eyes,<br /> Live on your cheeks,<br /> And die on your lips.&quot;

#3306 Poetry
By nomes GOLD
Hamden, Connecticut
nomes GOLD, Hamden, Connecticut
12 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let god deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.&quot;

#3307 Poetry
By tinabeana24 GOLD
Cambridge, Massachusetts
tinabeana24 GOLD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
10 articles 0 photos 6 comments
#3308 Poetry
By Lydiaq ELITE
Somonauk, Illinois
Lydiaq ELITE, Somonauk, Illinois
179 articles 54 photos 1026 comments

Favorite Quote:
The universe must be a teenage girl. So much darkness, so many stars.<br /> --me

#3309 Poetry
By LiveItUp GOLD
Congers, New York
LiveItUp GOLD, Congers, New York
13 articles 0 photos 10 comments
#3310 Poetry
By DolphinDozy PLATINUM
Payson, Utah (US), Utah
DolphinDozy PLATINUM, Payson, Utah (US), Utah
34 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;There is do and do not, no try.&quot; -Yoda