My (Other) Name In A Nutshell

Bubbly and bright, yet always faking it.

Ridiculous and strange, always an outcast.

Insidious and dark, with too much to hide.

Anxious and scared, always hiding.

Random and unexplained, and unashamed.

A picture of a stuffed animal hedgehog in a super hero mask and cape.

Fainting Goat

UT

15 years old

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  • Poetry

    By Fainting Goat

    Four Years

    I'm scared.

    I can't believe we're here

    Again.

    I can't believe this is reality

    Again.

    Four years

    They say.

    It's only four years.

    But it's four years

    Of a living hell for me.

    They laugh

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  • Poetry

    By Fainting Goat

    The Sorrow

    The sorrow I know

    Is like no other.

    It is too deep

    Too raw

    Too real.

    And as I stand here

    Within its everlasting clutches

    I find little bursts of hope.

    And these little burst of light

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