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She was gold



I always knew she was gold 

and that I was lead

She breezed through the day 

when I spent hours in my head


I knew she was the Goddess of perfection 

Her smile was enough to win anyone's affection 


I stood there, crawling in my skin, looking for some place to hide

She beamed at the crowd, killing it onstage, making her smile so wide


It nearly made me forget 

She was me, I was her mind

I could tell she'd also forgotten

until the mirror stopped to remind


I've forgotten what my exact words through the mirror had said

but I recall it went something around, "you're just gold plated lead"


The whispers changed everything 

The part her life no one knows

For the rest of the world, ever since that day

She just became gold that never glows
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