Failure

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A Roadblock in My Mind

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Ok, so through out my life I've always been different. Some have called me weird since I don't fall with in the norm of society, some have called me unique, and some just call that me. What ever you would call it, I'm that. Theres not another person alive that is at all similar to me, but I like it, this feeling of being unlike others.  Read More »

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Atheism... pure weakness

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I'm so sick of all the people who casually rattle off "Oh I don't have a religion, I don't believe in God, I'm an atheist." As if to have any faith in a higher power is nothing but pure foolishness and ignorance.  Read More »

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I was wrong.

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I was wrong. I don't know about everyone else, but it's definitely the hardest sentence for me to say. I have no problem saying that I'm sorry. I probably even say it too much. The probably comes with those, "I'm sorry, but....[insert lame excuse here]." I have a bad habit of becoming defensive when someone (my husband usually) calls me out on something I've said or done wrong.  Read More »

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Changes come (full version)

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Changes come as leaves fall from the trees

Another way to "get through" to them

Said with a chuckle

Amongst coy responses

Told to say what we might take

In stride to look like cake

Like a bad plot in a movie

This talk cant be real

Are people really listening intently?

Look at their faces as these words

Jumble out of lips built for lies  Read More »

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Lobbyists in America

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Policies are put into place by the government in order to help provide stability and safety for the mass public. In order to make sure that the people, corporations’, and organizations’ special interests are given to the governmental officials, people are hired to provide the officials with information. These people are known as lobbyists.  Read More »

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Unable to Find Safety: How the Foster Care System Fails its Children

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Imagine that you are seven years old. You’ve just been removed from your home because your father beat you to the point of hospitalization. You’re all alone, with no one to turn to. A strange woman tells you that you are going to stay with another family for the time being.  Read More »

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_____________________________________________________
defiance

weed
red and gold
grandma

the written word
a breath obscure

(I need my fragments
I need to feel a steady base
I need to feel my shatter and ruin)
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attempt to revivify childhood:
laughter in tumbling torrents  Read More »

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Can you hear me?

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To my mother

It just occurred to me that I’m trapped. I know what you’re thinking: What are you talking about? Well, let me tell you exactly what I mean.  Read More »

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