Like that song by F. Hill… “Before you knew me I was fairy princess, I caught frogs & called them prince & made myself a queen………”? yeah, that, was, just how NAÏVE and young I was, before you.
The me before you, how should I say it??? Was, content, because I didn’t know that I had parts of my self missing, taken from me when I was a whole lot younger, and, in the process of reflecting myself on you (mirroring, hello, hello, hello???), I’d realized many things about my painful, and already-forgot childhood days, which all came, flying RIGHT back and HIT me H-A-R-D!
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So, me before you, yeah, I was content, not knowing, but, me after you, I’d become, happy, KNOWING, and no, this process of growth still didn’t come easily, oh no, it was, quite painful, I’d had to lose MY nonexistent EMILY along the way already, remember H-E-R??? Oh yeah! And getting put through that SERIOUS betrayal by those two FUCKING (don’t pardon me this time!!!) ADULTS who should’ve loved me, but instead had, ABUSED AND NEGLECTED me.
Me before you, that was T-H-E-N, and, I’d gotten OVER you, and now, this is me, a BRAND new MAN (‘cuz I’d become one???), right before Y-O-U, and, nothing’s EVER gonna BEAT me down again!!!
not my photograph…
Me before you, well, I’m, OVER Y-O-U now, and, I’d been, on the R-I-S-E ever since, and now that I’d gotten to the VERY T-O-P of my G-A-M-E here, I’m really, enjoyin’ the view, from this IVORY tower of mine………
Life, the Obstacle Course 