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Hidden

Deep inside

Truth

Pain

Trying to hide

Hidden

Pain

Tears

Fears

Must be working

Smiling

Always looking

Many turn to me

Must be working

Hidden

Obviously

Can't be seen

Holding breath until passes by

Exhaled relief

Quiet sigh

Pain

Consuming

Must be working

Smile and nod

Constantly thinking

How and when

It all ends

Must be working

Unaware by family or friend

Hidden

My truth

Sometimes mental clutch slips

Few notice glitch within

Smiling

Holding all in

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Poetry will survive. Poets will not. Determined few; will leave their legacy

OTTO©

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“Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn’t look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting desperately to fall silent, grow smaller. More than that, I was uncomfortably conscious of my whole body, from the awkward way that the shafts of my hair were thrusting out of my scalp to my feet, which felt dirty as well as cold. Everywhere, I seemed to feel my skin from the inside, as if it now stood away from my flesh, separated by a millimeter of mortified space.”

— Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

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❤️

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- Sylvia Plath, from 'Ariel'

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“Darling, you deserve it all. You deserve love and peace and magic and joy dancing in your eyes. You deserve hearty, deep belly laughter and the right to let those tears fall and water the soil. You deserve freedom and goodness and company and days of bliss and quiet too. You deserve you happy and healed and content and open. So keep going. Go realize into being the life you deserve.”

— Unknown

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While the curve of a woman’s body may entice the eye, it’s the depth of her soul, the sharpness of her wit, the fire of her passions, the strength of her character, and the comfort of her caress, that is valued by the evolved man.