I Was Eight

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in the dead of night

under a black-blue-purple sky

she ripped me away from my home

the only thing i ever knew 

she smothered me with her shirt to stop the cries

bound my hands to end my desperate scratches

held up that ragged rabbit i kept beside my bed

and told me i was safe

that she was my hero

no matter what anyone else said

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