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by J.I. Punk

Created on: December 01, 2008

Before you I was ok, now I lay here battered and beaten and afraid to take a breath.

Before you I could smile, now I wonder what that feels like.

Before you I was much stronger. Now I can't seem to rise up off the ground.

Before this I didn't know what to be, but now I see that to make it out of here I need to find me.So I thank you now, because before you I was lost and unsure, but as I get up and finally walk away, I can say that now I am who I should be, I am exactly where I should be and that's all because I wasn't her before you

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Poetry: Before you

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by Betty Blake

Before you came along, my life had a huge void;
at times, like a big gaping hole. I used to cry '
myself to sleep some nights
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by J.I. Punk

Before you I was ok, now I lay here battered and beaten and afraid to take a breath.
Before you I could smile, now I wonder
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by Yew Baneberry

Before you,
There were teardrops on the petals of the leaves,
Before you,
There were dreams drifting off in streams,
Before
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by Amy Vanderhoof

i am a bluetiredredscreami ngcrazy person without you.
blue without and tired from thinking
and red from screaming and crying
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by Paige Williams

I need you to help brake down my wall. Show me that I have nothing to be afraid of at all. Take me in your arms and holdme

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