I've known heartbreak too,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYgwKg0Teo
Though few who know me know it,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdElxmpfGB
Longed for it to end.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5RFa1NjaM
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I've heard the sweet call,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm2hWnC5pOB
Whispered in my ear at times,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLuxC3fMm5z
For self-oblivion.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnbCn1LL10
59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjoZ8NQGCEj
But it always passed,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEScCZ2CV0S
Too many unfulfilled dreams,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUs2V0xYwY
I could not let die.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarXOCsLRf9
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Though not a young girl,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqqXFzy93n
I still can relate to pain,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHxSUOc3LJ
That's too hard to bear.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSMQCNSQFge
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They bring tears of blood,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVufN9q4GMY
Young colleagues' words with the pain,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgykOJv5Ln
They struggle to bear.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWxls7gZWG
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Doing themselves harm,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HIvV1MPi8
To escape the greater pain,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPwGvh3jIb
Of their precious lives.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0fEqb7niMx
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I beg you each, please,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLGcvA4I8R
Put down the knife, syringe, pipe,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYnCJFfI8qI
No answers in them.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwSEV5On8bC
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The answer's in you,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5x98bZVGm
In that hidden spark buried,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kPXHOFYNy
Beneath all the pain.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPch0dqLQt
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Incredible YOU!59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy22xHwCZYe
Unique, in the multiverse,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxN7SNxdHW
No other like you.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6lDtapyGI1
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No one with your skills,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTTxRtnJWS
No other voice quite like yours,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzknLdepRWn
To sing us your truth.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWezkYipkE7
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Boundless potential,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9uEUPkDb77
Still a tiny, precious seed,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCkrtek9WO
Waiting to take root.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFs26eDeai9
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Life's fetid manure,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwzesgyYwV
With tears of joy and sorrow,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRc3Ec7ICz
Will help you to bloom.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2XHCGO1I0E
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The spark in your heart,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYhItyenBgz
Will burst into flame in time,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCy6FE5vDB
Through your poetry.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUOU0Qau5v
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Purifying all,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHAtwe974eD
The specters and dark shadows,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0o9LaF3GAH
That now haunt your nights.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIxMp4eyLE
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Look in the mirror,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB4VM58XqDB
Beyond the scars and tear tracks,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJNyXoLzOj
To that ember's glow.59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXJe8VuYDa
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And know you will bloom,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡza5sVilmqS
And your mighty bows will bear,59Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQgCxnUmER7
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.