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I'm Unimportant/Important: Reverse Poem

September 3, 2022
By Extrasweet DIAMOND, Tenafly, New Jersey
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"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br /> "Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever" - Walt Disney

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I am unimportant 
no one can ever tell me that 
i am important just so 
I will stay strong 
it’s true that 
it’ll never work and yet 
i’m an idiot for trying it. 
huh, maybe 
i was determined 
too much 
I wanted more 
and it didn’t work so 
I feel like plain old me 
cruel comments. 
without 
important words. 
They always give me the sense of 
That i’m who i know I am 
Don’t just tell me what i want to hear

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