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Paper Flowers

Paper flowers line the walls

Their edges stained with blood

Each one folded with a whisper

All sealed with a cut

 

The red ones for my rage inside

Blood I\'ve spilled

The scars you\'ll find

For the ones who\'ve caused me pain

Broke my heart

Brought me shame

 

Yellows for my brighter side

My falls to madness

Time to time

For the follies of my fears

For the friends betrayal rears

 

Blues are for my deep black sea

Waves of depression crash in me

The rocky shores of my manic holds

The shifting sands of distant shoals

 

The white ones for my time alone

Isolation

This empty home

For the lives that I have lost

My wade through mourning

My bitter cross

 

The gray ones for my somber eyes

Anxieties that strip me from my life

Hold me down and wall me up

For the ones who stare and judge

 

The pink ones for my piece of mind

The pieces I can never find

For the edge I stagger on

For the terror

My haunted songs

 

Paper flowers line the walls

My body is all lined with cuts

My secret garden growing vast

The whispers sealed

My folded past