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As I smile at your brutal pricks.
My Shattering Core feels sick.

People hurt you,
assuming you are passive and complacent…
deep down you are slowly dying in agony

If THIS is LOVE,
I’m out of here!!

Every dart that pierced my heart,
opened the doors
of freedom for my soul…

Only if you could “hear” my soul;
you could “see” my pain.

I stood tall and endured it all…
While the real me wanted to escape
before I’d suffocate!

Everyday I put on a “you-cant-hurt-me”
smiling face but deep down inside
I’m holding the pieces of my shattered soul,
ready to let go.

On the surface I laugh and smile,
while inside my dying soul
struggles to breathe.

Too much pain
that you could no longer bare
would lead you to break free.

I have armoured myself
with an indomitable “will”;
Though I am unarmed,
I can take on your “arrows of sorrows”
and never “bow” to you!

With each pain n suffering,
it has given me the insight
and the strength to carry on
and not give up.

Enduring the adversities
doesn’t define the end of oneself,
there’s always a way out..

In the midst of pain
we gradually figure out
who we actually are and
that slowly sets our soul free.

We always have
the option of escaping
what others throw at us.

Society expects you
to don the happy face mask
no matter what you are dealing with,
but you are dying inside
and need to escape.

Prevent ‘arrow-gance’
before it knocks you out !!

Its the pain no one can see
that I tryna escape from.

You aimed for my heart
and set my soul free.

Sometimes what you see
is not what it is in reality.

Breaking free
from the cruelty thrown at me
through my other side

We endure painful arrows of criticism
with a smile,
but inside we want
to escape away for miles.