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I just Need a Tattoo to tell my Story
  I may seem like I am fine,
  You can’t just swing my emotions around on vines,
  Time will tick and tick,
  But that doesn’t mean I am fine,
  I might dye hair,
  Change my style,
  Anything to escape the reality of being me,
  A girl who dies from anxiety every second of her life,
  A girl who can’t live with guilt and will blame herself for ages because of this,
  A girl who lacks such confidence in such a way where she starves herself for days on days,
  Cries from the calories a caramel apple brings,
  It is okay to have anxiety,
  It is okay to cry,
  Just eventually you have to find a route to a point where you can breathe,
  Before your anxiety eats your brain,
  Because if it eats your brain,
  You instantly die,
  With no hope of survival,
  At all,
  I want a tattoo,
  Small and on my back,
  Only people close to me will see this scar,
  Anxiety it will say,
  Because anxiety is apart of who I am,
  I have had to live with it since I was 4,
  People judge me for it everyday,
  I want anxiety printed in ink on my body,
  To prove to people that love me,
  That I accept that I am far from okay,
  To those that love me,
  This news should be no surprise,
  You have seen me flip out and crash to the ground,
  My life a’int easy,
  It’s a roller coaster,
  I want this ink,
  So I can look at myself in the mirror,
  And breathe quietly to myself,
  “I have beat you once, I sure as hell can do it again”
  and repeat this again and again until I am far from dead.

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