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Created on: February 24, 2009
Walls
Seemingly open and crystal clear, but
Just a facade
A crack reveals the vulnerability
Anticipating that moment when
It can no longer hold
The pressure of hiding behind glass walls
Must some day burst
To reveal the secrets
Of the prim and proper interiors misjudged
The obsession with external societal expectations
Shattered
Revealing the soiled and disgraced
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