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I refuse to let my family read this, but hey, why not all of you? . . . I've been wanting to post this for a while. This was my English final, in which I wrote 18 poems detailing 18 important points in my (then 18) years of life. Most of these are...

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by IamMiddleEarth

by IamMiddleEarth

I didn't realize that you were

A wolf in sheep's clothing

I was cast out and

Alienated

But you watched it happen

Day after day

I drifted apart from

My mother;

My father;

I was losing myself

I didn't realize what you were

The day that you told me

You loved me

I thought you were genuine

And broken

And that I could somehow

Someday

Fix you

I was wrong

I didn't realize that you were

Someone else

Something else

A plague;

A distraction;

Pulling me to my death like

A stone tied to my feet

I didn't realize that you were insane

The day you tried to

Pull me out of the

Middle school gym during

Play practice

Ranting about fantasy and

A place we could hide and never be found

I didn't realize then what you were

But I know now.