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I'm annoyed no one tries to reassure me

I start at every noise

I should be sheltered from this misery

When will people realise lives are not toys?

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My heart is thumping within my breast

My head begins to whirl

As foreboding manifests

And dark thoughts unfurl

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Convulsions rend my spine

I'm too shocked even to weep

I wonder why this had to happen in my time

Before plunging into tormented sleep

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In the ensuing weeks there is mass hysteria

What is to be done?

I've never felt so inferior

Is the worst still to come?