Till she's free

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One, two, three, four
Slit on wrists, blood on the floor

Five, six, seven, eight
She looks pale; she lost some weight

Nine, ten, eleven, twelve
It's been a while since she's been herself

Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen
All she wanted was to be seen

Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty
The chair she usually sat at, now empty

It took her up to twenty
Her life was a mess

Twenty cuts had killed her
They wished she was back from the dead

-J

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