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Toxic
Pain is only one emotion
 
 Or a series of emotions 
 
 Pain can contain love
 
 Even hate
 
 But pain itself 
 
 Doesn’t hurt
 
 It’s the other emotions
 
 That once mixed with pain
 
 Create the agony, and sorrow 
 
 Emotions alone 
 
 Have no power
 
 But once ignited with others 
 
 The flames spread
 
 Love contains no feeling
 
 But when you combine 
 
 Love with heart ache 
 
 Will create a fire
 
 Large enough 
 
 To burn down 
 
 A forest 
 
 Fear, by itself
 
 Is empty 
 
 But after it mingles with 
 
 Past experiences 
 
 It creates anxiousness 
 
 So remember that 
 
 When emotions are mixed
 
 The result is toxic

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