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History 101

Charles Michael Craven

so many nights
wasted to the page
and it has taken less than six hours
to remind me why I’ve done it
so many times before.

in and out of relationships.
in and out of sanity.
in and out of soberness.

all the same questions and answers.

I’ve never been alone.

raised by a pack of wolves,
yet, here I sit a 25 year-old cub.

scared.
bored.
blank.

all I have is
neurons
breath
thoughts.

same as the day before.

it is time to grow up,
to resist
to hold on
to stand
instead of run.

two weeks to prove it.
two weeks to fuck it up.

my history says I can’t,
but the winners get to scribble
a new history book.

and in your eyes, no matter how it turns out,
I won’t be the next loser
on a passing thought
through another state line
on a route headed
to unhappiness.

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