they sa.y

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my lungs
want
air and
my hands
want
heat
and my
eyes
want people
yet the
empty
atmosphere
drips
nothing and is
painfully
bleak as it
rests its heavy
head
upon my
shoulders to sink
me further
underneath
the crust
of this planet

you are weak!

they say.

but are you, really?

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