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My eyes are dry

They're dry.
I promise you, my eyes are dry.
There's a drought building up inside.
Eventually, it'll end;
When all my sorrows transform
There'll be a flood
and I'll cry for years.
Oceans will spill from my skin.
Rivers will burst deep within.
I'll be stranded, heartbroken.
I'd rather they stayed bone dry
Because then I'll know you still love me. 
— evie.haywood, Jun 25, 2010

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Beauregard

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15 years 11 months ago

Keeping the pain inside

so that it builds up until you can't hold it in anymore and you've got yourself a flood of emotion. It happens to me a lot. I want to be strong and suppress the anger and frustration and sadness, but I can't ever seem to totally suppress it and then I let loose on someone I love and it's ugly and I regret it. If I could suggest something, I recommend using a different word than "dry" so many times. Maybe "arid" or "barren" or something like that. I'm glad your friend told you to post this! I like it too! Kelsey "In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me." -Edgar Allan Poe "If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist." -Marianne Moore