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    We Call It Living
    We Call It Living
    We Call It Living
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    We Call It Living

    By Ellen Frost

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    The book is a collection of poems all unique and all telling their own story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 18, 2011
    ISBN9781456735845
    We Call It Living
    Author

    Ellen Frost

    I've been born and raised in West Virginia and I've been writing poetry for years. It is my passion and my dream. I've read poetry by many authors, such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Ellen Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, several others. I aspire to follow them in their rhyming, rhythm, and creation of beautiful works of art with words.

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      We Call It Living - Ellen Frost

      Left to the Fire

      We build ourselves up

      And watch as we fall

      Turning our future

      Into nothing at all

      We create these walls

      Between us and desire

      Leaving our dreams

      To burn in the fire

      Scabs

      When you open a scab

      A new one comes in

      You bleed a little less

      You grow healthier skin

      When you scratch it later

      It opens once more

      But your skin just turns pink

      There’s no blood left to pour

      It gets thinner and thinner

      Each time that it heals

      Till your skin is normal

      And the nerves there can feel

      Once its all better

      And again it gets cut

      Then more blood will spill

      The slower it shuts

      It takes longer this time

      And the times that follow

      Until finally again

      The spot runs hollow

      Then your skin’s healthy

      For now anyway

      Until the time comes

      When pain swings your way

      Each time it gets worse

      When we repeat mistakes

      Let others walk on us

      Until our backs break

      More blood comes

      The scabs will grow

      Until our bodies are covered

      From head to toe.

      Reflection

      Another girl stares back at her

      Her eyes are her eyes

      Her hair is her hair

      Her hand are her hands

      He glare is her

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