YOU TAUGHT ME THIS

you taught me how to lie
you taught me how to hide
you taught me how to escape the world
you taught me how to cower like a little girl
you brought all those attributes within me
you made me want to not see
and that's why i walk around so aimlessly
with an absence of mind,
with no sense of time
and a lifetime of being confined
by you.

it's not how my life is supposed to be
-- but this is how you taught it to me.

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