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BETRAYED BY MY OWN
<p>I called until my voice became a stranger to me,</p><p>but you turned deaf ears to my cry.</p><p><br/></p><p>Or perhaps you had gone so far</p><p>that my voice could no longer reach you.</p><p><br/></p><p>I have nothing left to myself.</p><p><br/></p><p>So why did you take yourself away too?<br/><p><br/></p><p>I sought rest among the noise,</p><p>but found none.</p><p>Instead, they gave me more weight to carry.</p><p><br/></p><p>My shoulders have betrayed me.</p><p>They are no longer mine.</p><p>They no longer know what heaviness means,</p><p>for they have carried my burdens for far too long.</p><p><br/></p><p>My trusted ones turned their backs on me.</p><p>I sought my foes to lay my head,</p><p>but they only offered me</p><p>their cold graves to sleep in.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why have you forsaken me too?</p><p><br/></p><p>Without you,</p><p>my body will sleep</p><p>into a world that has no name.</p><p><br/></p><p>Where have you gone?</p><p><br/></p><p>Am I so dirty</p><p>that you have gone away too?</p><p>Or are you tired</p><p>of hearing my burdens?</p><p><br/></p><p>My brain has retired</p><p>before its time.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why have you all forsaken me?</p><p><br/></p><p>But you,</p><p>you are the cruelest.</p><p><br/></p><p>You left without a goodbye.</p><p><br/></p><p>At least my friends stabbed me in the back;</p><p>I knew their truth.</p><p>My foes showed me their black colours early.</p><p>My shoulders resigned</p><p>from carrying my burdens.</p><p><br/></p><p>But you…</p><p><br/></p><p>Why did you leave</p><p>as though I were nobody?</p><p><br/></p><p>You could have left me in the dirt.</p><p>At least then,</p><p>I would have known</p><p>that you were no more.</p><p><br/></p><p>But how do I mourn someone</p><p>who left without dying?</p><p><br/></p><p>Where do I bury what I cannot find?</p><p><br/></p><p>Where have you gone?</p><p><br/></p><p>And now,<br/></p><p>I am left carrying the weight</p><p>of your absence</p><p>with the shoulders</p><p>that have already betrayed me.</p></p>
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