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Bruises Like Badges
You wear your heart on your sleeve
and proudly display your (shallow) bruises
like badges
desperate for others to believe
in what you can achieve.
And you are so intent on putting on a parade
that you've lost yourself somehow in your charade,
and in the stories and lies that you weaved.
this plea for attention, your need for affection,
for awhile, was endearing in its vulnerability,
but has now worn its welcome and lost its novelty.