The Tide Has Pulled Me Under

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Glassy eyes and a porcelain smile

As I gaze into the mirror, that's all I see


Breathing is a difficult task with raspy lungs and a strangled esophagus

But still I must sing a song beautiful enough to rival the birds


Swaying silks caress my legs as I dance down the sand

The crashing ocean wishing to break from behind my eyes


My expression of pain caked over by false joy

Like the make-up mother forces me to wear


A pearly white smile, my oyster of the sea

I blink and there again I stand, staring back at myself


The tide has pulled me under





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