• I trudged home.

    Each step I took,

    Felt like I was falling

    Into the eternal swirl called

    Emotions.

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    'I'm home!' I called.

    Then a 'Welcome home!'

    Greeted me by a woman

    I never knew.

    She says she's my mother,

    I say she's a stranger.

    Where is home anyway?

    What is home?

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    I sat in the snow,

    looking up into the sky.

    By now I would have been shivering,

    But I didn't feel anything.

    What is the difference

    Between winter and summer?

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    The sun why shining brightly,

    And there wasn't a breeze to be found.

    They say it's hot yet...

    Why am I the only one so cold?!

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    They say,

    I'm suffering from depression.

    Doctors think they know everything.

    But do they know,

    What it's like to cry

    For the first time?

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    We stood there, uncomfortable.

    He was famous;

    I was nothing.

    Why was he here?

    Did he pity me?

    Why do I care?!

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    Everything was so white.

    The walls, beds, and even the smell.

    I hated it.

    Why was the world

    So bright yet

    Seemed so dark?

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    I was here again.

    Another moment

    Of uncomfortable silence.

    He coughed nervously

    Into his fist watching me warily.

    He tried a joke,

    'Awkward turtles make babies...?'

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    Hearing that line,

    I had thrown my pillow at him.

    This time I could not run.

    I will not run.

    But what was this new feeling?

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    I stared blankly

    At the T.V. screen where

    A romantic drama

    Was playing.

    What is love?

    Does it hurt?

    How does someone love?

    Can I love?