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Created on: June 05, 2009
Thoughts of the flesh absorbing thoughts of the soul.
Shallow depths engorge desired outcomes.
Take me back to the place where I was allowed to be full.
Take me back to the place of starving healthy existence,
poisoned mind,
emaciated body,
tortuously content in my devastating fate.
I am dying in an uncomfortably safe place of chubby babies,
smiling faces,
beauty everywhere,
round bodies,
blissfully ignorant minds.
I'm just another one now.
Nothing separates me from them anymore.
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