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A Prisoner’s Poem
When people remember me
I want them to remember a happy and friendly kid
Not what’s under that
Not the kid who is being judged
At all times with no brakes
By himself
“You’re being weird”
"Your smile is ugly"
“You’re not good enough”
It doesn’t matter what I’m doing
How I’m doing it
It is, and always will be, wrong
The constant ring of alarms
Blaring in my head
Just for walking by people
“It might get better
If you talk”
I’ll never bring it up again
Just knowing that someone might see
Just knowing that there are people
Better then me
I strive to perfect
But I can never just be in the moment
Always thinking about what I should do next
At the end of the day
When no one but me is there to judge
The simile just disappears
When I am finally forgotten
And I only exist in poor pillaged photos
I'll finally be known as a pretty happy kid.
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