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Did you ever wish you can turn back time
To that one scene in your life.
When listening to your head just didn’t seem right?
To begin something, with a blank mind
to begin somthing, where only time
can tell you if it's what you thought
only time spent, to figure what you've bought.
Most people never begin,
Poeticinsecuritieshauntingunbrokendreams in placesdeep beneaththe wavesof electrolytespulsingthrougheach brandnew idea.
A lack of thought dictates my eyes-
these eyes of despair.
So, I dissect the rusted window frame,
with my dry fingers,
looking for a way out, but I can't leave.
I look around for an escape and see a canvas-
I died when you thought I wouldn't make it/ Like an unwanted baby./ I died when you said you didn't love me no more,/ no more calling me baby./ And I died when they told me to quit,/ Like an old lady telling her delinqent Grandson that's being sha