Burn-Out

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Burn-Out

Weighing down my eyelids,
Forming aging wrinkles
A smooth blankness coating
Where laughter once left crinkles...

Sucking dry my energy
The parasite that promises lies
An incentive of false success
From a loss of time I despise

I never asked for this.
I asked for achievements so prized.
Instead I received exhaustion
A mischievous fate unwittingly devised

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