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Behind the words

Fri, 06/28/2013 - 12:06 -- Hanshipsterish

Location

Somewhere

Behind the bold words

And italicized lines
Lies a bold girl>With a crooked mind.

Behind my pulsing adjectives
And breathing verbs
Is a beating heart
And contracting lungs.

Behind the scratched out lines
Were words meant to go unseen
Like the words left unsaid
And the actions left undone. 

Somewhere behind my words
You’ll find me.

                                                                               You just have to look.

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Why I Write Scholarship (CLOSED)

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