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Marnie Lawson

Marnie Lawson

Unnamed

Held up on a pedestal
While I’m on tenterhooks
Trying to figure out myself
What is worth a look
Running around in circles
An everlasting fight
Overbearing silence
An unforsaken sight

(2015)

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Rust

Do I look like grass? Do I look like dirt? A surface to be walked on? Something to hurt? Am I that underserving
You

Time has stood still all I can think of is you and how many days are left between Us An hour feels like a whole day
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Lost

I didn’t think I could be so brok… I thought there would be a door le… But everything is closed off; my m… Happily ever after became a disaster
Fallen Angel

I came across a damaged soul wandering at night with piercing eyes and icy breath incapable of flight. Forever damned to walk this land
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Thinking

Beyond my smile, underneath the su… Is the feeling of isolation, drawi… Until I become a fragment of myse… It would be nice to not be It would be nice to not see
John Smith

I wish that you would come and tak… We’d go flying through all of time… Take me to your home planet, Gall… I know that it still exists, but y… We would fight the evil in the gal…
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Sleep tight my Angel

I love it when I fall asleep; I h… I forget that you’re gone - a way… But when I wake, the tears come f… cascading down my face. There’s a gaping hole inside my he…
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Thinking

I’m at the end of my tether Hanging by a thread Will I suffer in silence Or wind up dead? Seconds from snapping
Dearest friend

If I hurt you the way you hurt me I would never be forgiven It’s time that I stopped looking… And started living
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Strangers

You’re nothing but a stranger A ghost of the past Haunting me with your existence I never succumbed to your will I always fought
Don’t

Don’t love me out of convenience Don’t love me withheld Don’t love me without conviction Don’t love me if you can’t love yo… Don’t tell me I’m too emotional
Penny for your thoughts

Can we not exchange pleasantries, without your condescending ways? And when you belittle, it stays with me for days. Your abruptness bruises
Here and not

Your body plays host to a parasite While your mind is lost in the pas… I can hear you now in my memories But how long are they going to las… And how is it that you can be
Give me time

So deep in love I thought I was; it mirrored tortured Hell. Easily I lead astray but still again, I fell. Forgive me if I hold my cards,
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Symmetrical sadness

7.5 billion people in the world yet I felt so alone My only love is leaving me and I’m 90 miles from home I thought I was the only one hurt…



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