Despair At Ten, Died At Seventeen

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Each day, I lost a little more of myself.
There's a rope that hangs around my neck
that gets tighter with every realization
that things are far from getting better.
And I had never told anyone
how hard I fought whenever that rope
dragged me towards the ocean.
It's like fighting the urge to come home
and staying up more in hopes of
seeing the sunrise-the sunrise
that I had last seen when I was fourteen.

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