I've known heartbreak too,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04r3z9FCj3
Though few who know me know it,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoWigoOQW1
Longed for it to end.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWcLhqUvhg3
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I've heard the sweet call,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbW0HKfj6zn
Whispered in my ear at times,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZnpdsc6AF
For self-oblivion.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIqCg9cMBO
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But it always passed,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeygc6tQVQC
Too many unfulfilled dreams,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGU6MLVfKz
I could not let die.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBiGfXQsyCo
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Though not a young girl,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQencmWqKdn
I still can relate to pain,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTpx1p17RXi
That's too hard to bear.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX4Z2JzvrIY
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They bring tears of blood,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjXRFiFfeKW
Young colleagues' words with the pain,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbVigG82gU
They struggle to bear.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwz4Tj0Eh7f
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Doing themselves harm,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRegwN9hZvz
To escape the greater pain,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEiz2LuBvay
Of their precious lives.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy34T0KOpfY
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I beg you each, please,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs5wlEuce7B
Put down the knife, syringe, pipe,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrFmqcb4er
No answers in them.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE2PwBJ6Inb
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The answer's in you,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOdOwdZDqT
In that hidden spark buried,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjreO32ztGw
Beneath all the pain.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK4CTLRwbvU
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Incredible YOU!27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡee1PvWX92A
Unique, in the multiverse,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIKx4LyMzz6
No other like you.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO4yL51sxIf
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No one with your skills,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS35PMFlwXp
No other voice quite like yours,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQUOk3wEIk
To sing us your truth.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLAeQBrENca
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Boundless potential,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxghmn1z0X
Still a tiny, precious seed,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnW6vnEZW5
Waiting to take root.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZwtk9n3pn
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Life's fetid manure,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxn46fBPtUV
With tears of joy and sorrow,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsMCtlr6GQ
Will help you to bloom.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcipsSOKwj1
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The spark in your heart,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qQqI0jDTt
Will burst into flame in time,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw4KKuTT3lB
Through your poetry.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBwP7luBvV
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Purifying all,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9KQfbb86E
The specters and dark shadows,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU72rz2EdNa
That now haunt your nights.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXcrUsB0N1
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Look in the mirror,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLM1gYIRapC
Beyond the scars and tear tracks,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDSgWyeRBc
To that ember's glow.27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2qo9XhSj5
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And know you will bloom,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOMYcEkAeFH
And your mighty bows will bear,27Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2KwsBJDCW
The sweetest of fruit.

NOTE: As is usual for me , I wrote this piece in one sitting. It is largely stream of consciousness focused on poems I read before writing it (2019) by young poets, mostly young women, about cutting and other forms of self-harm in response to pain one cannot deal with. Some are beautiful, powerful pieces. I realize (hope) some may have been fiction, though I doubt it. All break my heart and make me feel completely powerless--other than to make an encouraging comment I know will mean very little if read. I've always dealt with my own pain through music and poetry. I don't know how else to reach out. Unseen tears mean nothing to those in pain. If only they could see themselves through the eyes of those in their lives who can see deeper than the reflection in the mirror. If only.