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I am Lily

December 28, 2012
By pinkchanelsuit SILVER, Northfield, Ohio
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"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make the soul grow." -Kurt Vonnegut

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My body may be here. But my heart is inside of him and my soul is in another dimension. My mind died a while ago. I am a terribly real thing in a beautifully false world. I am pure. You can ask me my identity but I'm afraid all I can tell you is, "I am lily." I cannot choose a fixed personality when I can be anything I want to be. I am a star, waiting to go home, where I belong: merely existing in an infinite blackness among other stars.

© Alyssa R., Pacific Grove, CA

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Explains the struggle of one's identity, and how they just want to be what they truly are.
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