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September 1, 2013
By Malibu_Barbie10 GOLD, Richardson, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”

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So many times,
so many times could those countless lines
have stopped and stayed
and crossed with mine.
But it wasn’t so.
And as I know,
many a time did loneliness leave me
with no place to go.
So many haunting memories.
I wonder, could it have been different?
I held that key,
But my time and choices are spent…
No indication where those roads not taken went.
So many spirits I do not know,
So alone, yet I can’t believe that
the phantoms that cast me to and fro
are the ghosts inside, that torture me.

© Laura Dunlap, Phoenix, AZ

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