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                                                Teenage Angst

 Star light, Star bright
 First star I see tonight
 If I may, if I might
 Please have the wish I wish tonight...

 But what good is a wish?  You might as well have a hope,
 A dream
 A myna bird with no voice- a pen with no ink
 
 Hopes, dreams, wishes...ha!
 They all ultimately lead to self destructive idealism, don’t they?
 Please tell me they do- 
 Validate my naturalism, my fatalism 
 Reassure me, and in doing so
 Protect me

 From what? 
 From the small shred of light shining through a crack in the thick adobe
        wall that has been caulked and plastered and whitewashed umpteen
        times just to prevent such a glimmer from ever shining through...

 Save me from the idealistic bastards who will flaunt their ideals in the
        face of my ever shattering pessimism

 Protect me from myself 
 For I don’t know myself without my shield of denial
 Naked
 Open, shivering under the winds of change 
 Vulnerable to some other pessimistic person who will beat me with their
        shield
 As if hiding under just one weren’t bad enough.

 Hold me
 Hug me
 There is nothing to fear but me myself
 Believe me, I’m already afraid
 
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