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Chances chances fall likeChances by *Starsister12
shadows and raindrops
above behind around
take a shot
and maybe miss
make a mess
pick up pieces
only to break
again and again
try fumble lose
choices don't stop
coming at you
so you never
know which one
to take back


cutting my hair letting my hair down with one simple twistcutting my hair by *Starsister12
to waft in the breeze without obscuring my vision;
a novel sensation.
once it was long and tamed,
now short and wild.
a wild child steps forward, shakes her head with abandon
and cries: "i am free!"
i haven't cut my hair in eight years.
trimmed, certainly, but cut?
i wasn't bold enough to take that step.
i was warned as a child, "don't cut your dolls' hair, 'cause it won't grow back!"
have I been a doll all this time?
eight years of snarled stress and pain caught in the tangles of brown curls.
i grew it long because fantasy women wear their hair long
in battle-braids while so
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