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Why Can't Life Be A Poem?
Why can't life be a poem?
Abstract and open to interpretation
No right or wrong
Just things as they are
Why can't pain be like a song stuck in your head?
So quiet to start
That you can't be sure when it began
A throb at the back of your mind
Instead of sharp
Flashing
And Burning
Can't it be dull
And fade out so slowly
That you can't be sure when it stopped
Why can't sorrow be like a fairytale?
A problem that is always resolved
With a hero
And a villian
And most importantly
A
Happily
Ever
After
But I get it
I know why it can't
It's because
We are meant to live out loud
To feel every emotion so vividly
To experience the sharpest pains
And the neverending sorrows
So that we can feel the greatest joys
And the deepest loves
In real life
There is a right and wrong
In real life pain burns
In real life there are no Happily Ever Afters
But there are happy moments
And things that dull the pain
And you are free to see life any way you want
But remember
In the darkest of times
When everything seems wrong
And all you can feel is pain
And you don't understand how the hero can defeat the villian
And you just want to go numb
Remember
Why life can't be a poem
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