Torment

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Why am I Aisha? Why aren't I someone else? What makes a person human?
Eating
Eating away at me
This eternal feeling I can't see to flee
Flee
Every minute every day
What is human
What are we?
Why am I me
The caterpillar eats my guts like an apple core
Leaving only the emptiness of the floor
Once I'm done there won't be a me left
Left
Can you tell me what a life is?
Like a firefly against the night sky
Floating away
It takes my emotions away with my sanity
What's left is only the inhumanity
Now I am a machine
Turn me on
Turn me off
I only live to be alive
Work
Work
Work
All I'm good for
Tell me, why am I Aisha?
Why aren't I human?
Will I ever escape this torment?
Torment

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