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  • Writer's pictureChandler
    • Mar 1, 2019
    • 1 min read

I Pierced My Ears Last Week

Updated: Nov 27, 2019


I pierced my ears last week

Even though you didn't want me to

Add that to the long list of things

You never let me do

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How ironic is it then

That you have so much queer pride

But whenever I'm flamboyant

You tell me to keep it all inside?

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You made me feel so guilty

For all the wonderful parts I contain

Hiding them and suffocating them

Fighting them with disdain

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But ever since you cheated

And I decided to leave

I've started building myself back up again

And there's no more need to grieve

For I was a burning fire

That you had failed to put out

A brave young seed in the soil

A redwood tree beginning to sprout

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Being the bigger person

Always makes me feel so small

It's like running headfirst

Without first learning how to crawl

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Shaped into what you wanted

I break out of your mold

All the hidden parts of me

Unravel and unfold

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I pierced my ears last week

And it made me feel so tall

Because for the first time since I met you

I realized being me isn't so bad after all

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