sometimes i see people
and wonder what
they’ve been through.
who hurt you? why do
you look so sad? does
the sun not warm your
heart anymore? is the
skin you’re in not loved?
do the pieces of your
fractured soul create
a mosaic that tell a story?
i think broken souls call to mine.
chicnerdreads 
Beautiful 💕
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Thank you ❤
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Love this!
Btw, I tagged you in the Harry Potter book tag! Feel free to ignore this tag if you’ve already done it or simply don’t want to!
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Aww thanks!!!! I’ll check it out later =)
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I won’t even try to explain on here why this particular little poem means so much to me (I would sound like a weirdo), but thank you for sharing ❤
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you would never come across as a weirdo to me ❤
thank you xoxo
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Beautiful as always Gray ❤ ❤ <3!
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Thanks sweety darling (lmfao don’t kill me)
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LMFAO smh I can’t
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I feel like this poem really calls to me, I actually do this. I look at people on my commute to uni all the time and wonder their stories.
Beautiful as always Gretchen ❤
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Yes!!! I do the same while going to work!! Thank you xoxo
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I love this so, so, so much. I think about this all the time. Your poetry is amazing, Gretchen ♥
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Thanks Lauren. That means a lot o me ❤
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LOVE this, so beautiful ✨
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Thank you so much ❤
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Beautiful! I saw your tweet about working on your poem books. It got me so excited, keep it up girl! It will be wonderful 🙂
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Thanks so much love!!!!!
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You are so welcome! 🙂
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Just seeing this, and I am incredibly moved! Thank you for sharing 🙂
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Aww thanks for reading!!!
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My pleasure!
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I love the way you break up the lines. It’s lilting in a musical way without getting sing-songy. The line breaks imply to me that stability is missing and present at the same time. It’s mesmerizing.
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the fact that you’re reading and dissecting my poems has me in my feelings (good thing) and i appreciate it so much because you understood it perfectly ❤
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Holy crap. Gretchen! I might finally feel confident with poetry thanks to you! I had a really bad experience in high school studying poetry, and I have barely read it since. This has been a wonderful experience for me.
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there’s one thing i learned in this process while sharing my poetry with all of you is that…your experience is very similar to others because people think they know what’s right and wrong when it comes to poetry…the amazing thing about poetry is that it really has no rules and im happy that you’ve had a wonderful experience, i hope it last like that a lifetime ❤
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Exactly! I hope to branch further into it as well. I recently got an audiobook called Poetry on Record- it’s 98 poems read by the authors. Including many who are no longer with us and were recorded on vinyl. Plath, Frost, Whitman– I’m hoping hearing poems read in their own voices will help me make connections different from my studies and get me further out of this mental box I seem to have found myself. Your poetry has really helped!
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Oh that sounds lovely! Will you be reviewing it on your blog? That would be really cool if you do. I’m happy my poetry has helped =)
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I definitely will be reviewing it on my blog. 🙂 Typically, I listen to audio books when I’m exercising or driving. I think I want to sit and focus 100% on this audiobook, though. It might be a while before getting a review written then– it’s hard to get alone time!
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Completely understandable!
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