The many faces.
Clover Ambel
The many faces.
To the many faces we wore growing up, To the many faces we will become, To the ones who made that One-time appearance.
A face half empty
A face half full
3 You were always full...okay?
I miss being 11 The uncertainty Naively wishing to grow up Unkowning the depths of the world I miss being 11
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-Blissfully unaware
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Self-sabotage Cutting your stem you don’t see those flowers Respect the process of growth
Too involved to notice the buds Too involved to notice my fall back Even to notice Your own You champion that castle Self-sabotage
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-Notice
-Notice
-Notice
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The
First
Face. When’s the first time you wore a mask? Pretended to be someone you’re not? Alcohol encouraged my first face Action without consequence.
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So do what you do best And morph yourself Become what they want you to be Again Lose yourself just that little bit more Become your environment once more
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Do Do
What You Best.
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Stop shouting your presences You are heard
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I’ve always seen you You became who I always thought you were Who I always saw you as You stepped into youself
Never stop You grew You grow This is your growth
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Don’t allow space for the negativity, guilt, pain to grow No water must feed those weeds Guilt drowns the soul Keeps you full, weighted, heavy To free the guilt you must free yourself Until then You must drown Drown in the water Feeding those
- Drown
weeds
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- Look under your nose. There’s a lot on my plate I can’t finish Looking down I didn’t realise How big I’d allowed it to grow Right under my nose
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You are what you eat Eat the trees and you’ll grow Smoke the green and you’ll slow
- Green Trees
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I knew you since I was 2 We grew...
I recognise most parts of you Not all of you But Most
-Blissfully unaware
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Surface level environments are draining for the mind and soul you need to be surrounded by real love.
- Daily
- Daily
- Daily
- Daily
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Thank A love like yours Pours Into my soul You feed me Thank you
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You were as sour as a lemon Soured my taste Soured my face You became one of my many faces One I was glad to let go
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-Goodbye
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Thank you so much For getting to this page. And that you have read them Means so much Thank you again. The spaces on the pages are for you To do what I used to do. I’d find a space in any book...
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...Write down my secret thoughts Worries, plans and poems. No one was going to find them that way Only I knew they were there, Secret and silent. “Have you been smoking?� My mum once asked When she smelt the memory of My little bonfire Used to burn away the pages I no longer wanted to remember.
From Clover, with love đ&#x;’—
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