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Skeletons of Peace

January 19, 2013
By bluke11 SILVER, Bellingham, Washington
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You can be mad that the roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because the thorns have roses.

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I feel like an emotional pile of sh*t.
Heart aches like the bones of a heroin addict.
I stuffed all my skeletons away to be forgotten.
Shut.
Locked the door to their home I call my attic.
But now I hear them creepin'-their footsteps represent my sudden steady weepin'.

© Courtney K., Bethel Park, PA

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