Strangers

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I have always been told; "stay away from strangers"

Nothing good will come out except for the danger

But what if I am my own stranger?

My own shadow that keeps following silently behind me during the day

and haunting me during the night

This stranger feel like a puzzle box

Full of millions of pieces with all these different shapes and sizes

And trying to fit them all together into this one big picture but they just won't line up together

And they know they are never good at puzzles

but need to at least try to make this work

Make this work for them and their family

Because they destroying themselves without even realizing

But secretly wishing they'd find a cure for this nonsense that's been stuck in their mind

But they've realized these thoughts form deep inside

and the reason they are afraid is because they don't even know themselves

It's so hard for them to find reasoning in everything when they so irrational

and the clocks in their head are just stuck in there place and they won't turn because some kind of lever disguised in camouflaged

won't come out and make them think

And it's so hard for them when they can't remember a time they were comfortable in their own skin

because they keep tugging at these clothes they wore and fidgeting back and forth

And it's so hard for them to find beauty in their skin

when they have these lines on their thighs that don't define them

but they are still upset because those lines are there mocking them all the time

They feel like a complicated puzzle that they've spent years working on

And sometimes they get tired and just want to give up

But it's still there and getting worse and worse and worse

When all they want is for this pain to stop!

They don't even know themselves

When this stranger that has my name

Thinks they're incapable of earning this knowledge they are dying for learning

because they think they aren't smart enough or what they'll say isn't good enough

When this stranger enjoys having more compliments from people that don't even matter

but still get this joy in their heart when they see 50 people liked their picture

They have to realize that if they live their whole life off of what others think

They'll never be happy or satisfied with themselves

They'll only be happy and satisfied with what others would say!

This stranger needs realize just sitting there on the floor moping and waiting for something to come along and save them won't happen

They need to save themselves from drowning

This stranger is me

But this stranger could be anyone, you see

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