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August 23, 2011
By Racheldonaldson SILVER, Newcastle, Other
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Racheldonaldson SILVER, Newcastle, Other
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Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.

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What if I could yelp?
Then maybe I could have some help,
but what if no one hears?
What if no one is near?
What if I could see?
See that this is all a nightmare,
what if I could wake up right now?
But it's too real,
there is everything to feel,
the glass stab my shin,
the blood trickle down my skin.
Hear the cries echo,
I search my voice to call back,
but I can't.
The limited space around me gets smaller,
the weight on my body gets larger.
Blood – the last thing I can smell.
What I don't go to heaven, but hell.

© Gary C., Pequannock, NJ

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I wrote this during the Haiti earthquake.
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