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Awake Yet Asleep

September 20, 2014
By EmilytheBelleofA. DIAMOND, Athens, Georgia
EmilytheBelleofA. DIAMOND, Athens, Georgia
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Favorite Quote:
To love is to be vulnerable; Triumph is born out of struggle; We notice shadows most when they stand alone in the midst of overwhelming light.


White sheets
covered her
from the world;
and red ribbons
laced around
her back
and her arms.


The colors
of black and blue
surrounded
her body too;
soon to be
joined
by the color of blood.


Liquid rubies
dripped
and dropped
from her body,
falling
and crashing
into the ground.


The only music,
she heard
was a lullaby,
as she laid
with pain,
on a bed
of dreams.


When she had
no reason to hope,
she still hoped;
and so
she endured the pain,
that they inflicted
and whipped
on her.


And so,
with each rise
and with each fall
of her breath,
she still lives;
asleep,
on a bed
with a mask.


Pieces of midnight
fell around her
as waves;
as she laid
awake
yet asleep,
in the midst
of confusions
and illusions,
in the hospital.


The author's comments:

I wrote this from a dream, I had last night (on September 20, 2014.) This has never happened to me, but I know this has happened to other girls my age, older and even younger than me. Before and now. This is still happening in our world, possibly and probably even right now. There are people who abuse girls like this and sometimes more. I don't about you, but I think we can stop this. What do you think? Thank you for taking the time to read this. 


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on Oct. 6 2014 at 4:21 pm
EmilytheBelleofA. DIAMOND, Athens, Georgia
81 articles 5 photos 1486 comments

Favorite Quote:
To love is to be vulnerable; Triumph is born out of struggle; We notice shadows most when they stand alone in the midst of overwhelming light.

Haha, thank you. :) Don't worry, it is rather confusing. :) The dream or nightmare I had, was about me getting whipped because I was sacrificing myself for a little girl. The men who whipped me, gave me bruises and scars. Blood dripped fro me. But later in the very long dream, I was in the hospital. Watching myself, unconscious. And I was asleep or unconscious for a long time. Yet for some reason, I still held on. And so, I laid in the hospital, with my black hair all around me. Dreaming as I laid. I hope I didn't make you more confused, and that it makes sense. Or rather makes sense, haha. :) Thank you again. 

on Oct. 6 2014 at 11:36 am
Nella.Girl97 BRONZE, Ashland, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
"Keep on dreaming even if it breaks your heart."

Written well, kind of confusing tho! Maybe its just me! Idk! :)