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GhostOfTheEmptyGrave

Published: May 14, 2014

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I'm drowning
In my own misery
I reach out
Searching for a helping hand
But nobody is there
And so I sink
Still trying to reach a hand
That is not there

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StygianWolf

Jun 22, 2014

No. My friends would never desert me.

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