forty-two

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midnight settled as a girl
pirouetted under the skies

she stared up at the moon and asked
why were her wings battered

her feet were blistered
her legs were scarred

she couldn't do what she
was meant to do

she couldn't dance like
the graceful being she is

-lyrix

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