Grow.

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How am I supposed to grow,
If my roots keep getting damaged?
These people dig around me, with their sharp words like spades. I keep losing pieces of myself and I'm not sure if they'll grow back.

And my soil isn't being fertilised.
I haven't fed myself a kind word in weeks.

And I'm withering. I haven't had a drink in days. I've cried out all my pain and I'm too worn, too weak to nurture my soul with trivialities like sustenance.

I need the sun. And to see the sun, I know that I need to cut away these weeds.
It's the only way I can grow.

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