6. I Am a Walking Oxymoron

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I am a walking oxymoron -

Never too sure of myself,

Too unreliable to be loved

Sometimes thoroughly confused

By the paradox of my mind,

The asymmetrical and contradictory lines of my body.

I vomit out thoughts that I rebut

Half a second later.

My life is split in half between

Things I say

And things I do.

They're complementary colours

Battling each other,

Scowling at each other,

While I watch, and do nothing.

I'm a self-aware hypocrite –

People never take my words as truth

For they are always half-fledged things

That I throw at walls in experimentation.

If my mind was a painting,

It would be Free Form, with the orange,

The black, the white.

I'd like to think I'm this way because I'm too complex

To only be a clause, a phrase, a simple sentence.

And I love my thoughts too much to be a tautology.

But this is the part of me that nobody loves

And I'm not sure if I love it myself.

I am a walking oxymoron.

Don't trust me. 

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