over & over

Read aloud
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over and over
my life is a never ending cycle
a light i forgot to turn off
a nightmare that won't go away
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over and over
like a clock
running on infinite batteries
i can't catch a break, can i?
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i wake up
and i do school
equations that i just can't remember
unanswered textbook questions
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my life is an unfinished sentence
with no punctuation
no time to breathe
no time to stop and rest
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i think sometimes
that there's no possible way
i could keep going
i can't do it
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but i do
over and over
backward and forward
again and again.
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i think
'wouldn't it be easier
if i could just...
stop?'
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no more anxiety
no more pain
no more repeating it
over and over
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but i can't
i can't do it
not for me
for them
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so i continue
over and over
backward and forward
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again and again.