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<b>MayVaneDay Studios (Gopher Edition)</b>
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<p><b>warning</b></p>
<p>published: 1-21-2019</p>
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<p>I stand at the edge of the void and I scream<br />
"isn't there any hope left for me?"<br />
no response, just as I expected<br />
just a drop in the sea and my own damn reflection</p>
<p>something in the water starts to swirl<br />
the boat rocks- and I think I might hurl</p>
<p>all the words I spat up as a babe three years hence<br />
before I decided to look over the fence</p>
<p>and as I turn my head to the sky, what should I see<br />
but my muses, heads and bodies numbering three</p>
<p>"we knew what would happen.<br />
why didn't you listen?<br />
you could have avoided<br />
your own perdition.</p>
<p>now get up and start taking life into your own hands.<br />
for too long, you've cast your gaze at unattainable lands.<br />
your name's not Lucine- or Seliph, or Chiki.<br />
what you are comes from inside of you, not from a screen.</p>
<p>remember, you don't have to ask permission to <i>be</i>.<br />
to breathe, to move, to choose what you believe.<br />
your name is your own, regardless of those you call 'friends'.<br />
damn their approval! it won't matter in the end.<br />
those who matter will know when to clap,<br />
and the rest will all blow away in the never-ceasing wind like chaff.</p>
<p>we know you're penning these words to convince yourself.<br />
so as long as you have the reins and your brain's on the shelf:</p>
<p>you exist, no matter what other people say.<br />
you make a mark on the world in your own special way.<br />
maybe it's hidden, maybe it's obscure-<br />
but unless you live as yourself, you'll never know for sure."</p>
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