Treading

she was a vanished girl

who felt untouched by the world

left in the sinking depths

kept alive by the darkening hour

she still believes

still believes

a mother gone,

a father non-existent

her family kept her going

the brokenness a lighting

she still fights

still fights

her forest set aflame

the haven she once loved, gone

gone

she had nowhere to go

nowhere to hide

she was bare,

bare

wrecked life

wrecked hope

the pain reminds her it's real

the dream she lives in

a dream she's living in

it keeps her going

keeps her going

she's falling, drowning

hope merely an excuse

to cover up the lies she's heard

that keeps her moving

moving.

but it's pulling her down --

suffocating her

she's pretended it's funny,

to live in a dream

pretended it's fine

to be deceived by what

she believed in instead of

what was real.

but when her walls crumble

and the dream she lives in

becomes the reality she's always

been running away from

there's really nowhere else to run

to run.
-Rae


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Bolded sentence from Amy's View.