Was I Ever Alright?

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As I sat, curled into the corner of my bedroom at 1am
Staring off into the abyss even as the stars glistened in the pitch black sky, I rocked my body side to side, "I'm so broken and it's not beautiful and brave as they'd said it be in the poetry I've read." I whispered into the night half hoping someone would appear, throw rocks at my glass window and whisk me away into the sunset, but sadly I sat there till my knees ached and my butt felt numb and the only time I moved was when mom banged on my door the next day and screamed.
"You'll be late for school."

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