<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Inside of Me]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">I’d kept you, inside of me, for close to TEN whole years now, and, each and every day that passed me by, I’d come, to miss you, a little bit less and less, until, I don’t EVER miss you at all now!</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">Inside of me, that, was where you should’ve been, back in 2008, but, because of things that’s happened, beyond MY control (and so, I’m still a god DAMN control freak here!!!), you’d not, been “made” yet.</span></span></p>
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<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">not my art.</span></span><img src="https://www.lakewood-center.org/files/galluzzo_andrea_that_which_i_seek_has_always_been_inside_me.jpg" /></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">Inside of me, there’s that, feeling, of overwhelming sickness that slowly takes me over, when I thought about, what had happened to my childhood, I was, brutalized by them, they’d, RAPED me (not physically OR sexually, once more!!!) again, and again, and lied to me that that, was how love goes, and because I was trusting, I’d not, secondguessed or questioned them, besides, they were all, a WHOLE lot older, and I’d still needed them to survive, I was, once, so very young…</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">Inside of me, there was, this hollow void, that felt like someone had taken a knife, and CARVED out something vital from my body, and that emptiness, hollowness had, followed me, became, an annoying TAG-ALONG (and I HATE tag-alongs!!!), that just won’t, leave me alone!</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LichsMirror_4744.jpg" /></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">not my sketches still.</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">Inside of me, there is, NOTHING, because I don’t feel a thing (and no, it’s still NOT due to my getting NUMBED out by this god damn life worth of never-ending abuse AND neglect I’d endured through either!!!), ‘cuz I’d, changed all that, turned my emotions into something higher: COGNITION!</span></span></p>
<p align="center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:medium;">The inside of me was, purged, completely, and now, everything’s out there, for the world to see…………</span></span></p>
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