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I used to have a soul

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These bars so solid

As I lay awake

I cannot move

I start to shake

I wonder what

Did I ever do?

Who I hurt?

I have no clue

Bound in chains

To never leave

Held in solitude

Just to please

Weak and malnourished

Hardley fed

Eaten by bed bugs

This sorry bed

As light shines in

My capture arrives

I wish they would kill me

This life so deprived

But they just look at me

No pity or shame

What’s on their mind?

What is their game?

I used to have a soul

Its spirit just left

It pitied me

Thought it would be best

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Sure I won’t be missed

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I hate money

It’s control over us

Can’t get enough of it

It causes such a fuss

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Everything depends on it

Can’t get away

Always need more of it

At the end of every day

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Debt comes to bite your ass

And it rips you a new hole

It tosses the windows out

Until the vacuum takes hold

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There are always others

That are much worse off than me

But my biggest stress of all

It has its way with me

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So much worry

So much stress

Sometimes wondering

What is this test

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Cars always breaking down

Kids to pay for

Working for your job

Feeling like a whore

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Now we have to live to work

To pay all the fucking bills

Eating all my insides out

Like a poisonous swill

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What is next to save myself

To get away from this

Put a bullet through my skull

Sure I won’t be missed

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Suffering weep

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So so young

In the bedroom alone

Dark dark feelings

In the family home

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Penknife out

Grating the skin

Starting to cut now

Pushing within

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Feeling the pain

Gritting the teeth

Seeing the blood

Feeling misbelief

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Tears of rage

Flow from eyes

Hating everything

True despise

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Hating life

To finally stop

Giving up

Had enough

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Laying down

Looking up

Regretting now

The open cut

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Old t shirt

Wrapped around

Foetal silence

Not a sound

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Tired now

Suffering weep

Teary dreams

Fading to sleep

depression · New work

To for once have a voice

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Looking for escape

From this rigid place

Impossible to go

Let alone evade

There is no door

Nor has there ever been

To think for myself

Would just be obscene

Trapped by all decisions

Weighing ball and chain

Never have enough

It has always been my bane

The air is now choking

Oxygen becomes gas

As I seek an exit

This sad story alas

My one last ounce of control

To make my own choice

To be a courageous coward

To for once have a voice

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Innocence stolen

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Why does sadness weep within my pores?

What ever I see is immediately absorbed

It seeps in deep and swallows me whole

Like a wormhole, nowhere to go

I ache for solitude, to be left alone

I can’t even return now, there is no home

Torn away, ripped as a page from a book

My innocence is gone, it has been took

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depression · Life · love · New work

A new start

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Time whispering away

As snow patters to the floor

Chorus in the streets

Awaiting the new year

Saying goodbye to regrets

That we hold on to so deep

Cutting away through our skin

As we cry the tears we weep

Reflecting forever hard

On what cannot be undone

Trudging through the tormented life

Another year has begun

As the fireworks explode

In a chorus of hurrah

Forgetting all our troubles

Wishing they were afar

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Life sucks

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When you’ve had a bad day


You wonder which way


To go in your life


Argued with the wife


Your kids hate you


It’s their point of view


That nothing is good enough


That’s the way it is. Tough!


Your job sucks like a wormhole


You don’t like your boss, arsehole!


You can’t find another job


Cause you’re a lazy slob


Bills just don’t stop coming in


Overdraft and credit cards sinned


Your car has broken down


Your face starting to frown


Your phone is almost flat


Forgot to charge, what a twat.


That’s it, decided to quit?


Look at yourself, stop being a dick

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