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You Never Change

October 29, 2012
By MarieAntoinette2014 DIAMOND, Scottsburg, Indiana
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MarieAntoinette2014 DIAMOND, Scottsburg, Indiana
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Isn't it ironic? We ignore the ones who adore us, adore the ones who ignore us, love the ones who hurt us, and hurt the ones that love us.

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You stabbed me again.
You promised you'd stop.
Here's that knife,
I smile at you,
almost like an invitation for it to start again...

I've done it before.
I've let people stab me in the back.
But now...
I understand.
We are ashes and dust.
We crumble so easily.
We break.
We shatter,
even without a knife in the back.
Why let them shatter you,
When you do it on your own?

Life is too short to let you hurt me anymore,
and I'm sick of it.
I've let you stab me before,
I thought you'd change,
and I was wrong.
But I won't make that mistake again.

I'm tired.
So very tired.
I don't get a break from this existence,
and I'm too young to be so weary from your lies.

© Crystal F., Marshfield, MA

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MarieAntoinette2014 DIAMOND said...
on Nov. 5 2012 at 9:50 am
MarieAntoinette2014 DIAMOND, Scottsburg, Indiana
54 articles 2 photos 237 comments

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Isn&#039;t it ironic? We ignore the ones who adore us, adore the ones who ignore us, love the ones who hurt us, and hurt the ones that love us.

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Thanks, I was really angry when I wrote this. However, it is totally true. Thanks for commenting!
WriterGirl1197 SILVER said...
on Nov. 5 2012 at 3:48 am
WriterGirl1197 SILVER, Hamden, Connecticut
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&quot;I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.&quot;-Socrates

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Wow! There is nothing more i can say but wow right now!! -Writtergirl1197