_______________ A knock on my brain._____________________
_______________There once was___________________________
_________________a closed door.__________________________
__________________Now its open._________________________
____________________There is a box._______________________
_______________________A ribbon comes off,________________
_________________________once tied neatly in a bow,__________
__________________________________ and the lid is off._______
_______________________________There's bubble wrap,_______
_____________________________there's secrets.______________
__________________________The questions come.____________
_______________________I think and think._________________
_____________________I think of excuses. They ask,___________
________________________"was it really a joke?"______________
__________________________Of course not, I think, and,_______
____________________________"do they know?" More excuses,__
____________________________________"my mental health?"__
_______________________________and now the bubble wrap___
_____________________________it's unraveled,______________
________________________________and everything's...________
__________________________________falling apart.__________
Then,__________________________________________________
I realize,________________________________________________
I just need to be led to His path,_____________________________
I look back and see, and wow, it's already there, behind the secrets and worlds influence on me...___________________________________
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