Raised

My environment made me this way. 
It has made me volatile, self-destructive, and deeply despondent.


Yet I wasn't abused nor neglected.


Society's standards have tried to suffocate me into a state of submission that I struggle to silence.


I was never raised to be resentful and restless, but I have grown into these grievances.

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