1. In my dreams
2. I am treated to lies
3. There's finger pointing and laughter without sound.
4. When I am able to hear the family and friends that live in my visions, the message is always awkward and broken.
5. Is my nightmare a fractured funhouse mirror or is the reflection flat and smooth?
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7. I am told that my visions are common.
8. But I wonder if I'm dreaming during the day just the same.
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10. My brain is on fire as I reinterpret reality
11. Casting myself as the victim
12. Falling into the same pattern
13. Year after year
14. Broken shards of twisted glass assemble themselves around me
15. Gently pushing into my skin
16. Releasing my brightly-colored blood while reflecting my dormant misery.
17. I live.
18. Like the liver or heart of misguided Prometheus
19. Perpetually dying
20. Forcefully removed
21. My remains held up by the chains of long forgotten Gods

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