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  February 2023     1 year ago

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The Dark

We do not fear the dark,
We fear what lurks within
The things we cannot see, like a deep sea shark
The things that make our minds twist and thin
The heart fears the unshown,
The brain fears the...

– by August Vance

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War

While you are sick,
You are at war with your mind
A war of attrition
One side is stronger than the other,
With bigger cannons and more reason to fight
The other is weak
The other side has no cause

One side is armed with bullets of titanium ...

– by August Vance

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the mirror

hurts to look in the mirror and feel the way i do
to look in the mirror,
and see nothing but the things i wish i could change
the mirror is a ghost
she haunts me
when our eyes meet, that’s when she whispers,
“too skinny, too fat,
too...

– by august vance

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