_Peace is offered by none, so I offer it to myself._

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_I choose to lie in my bed, the world in my mind far better than the world outside._

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_Behind my eyelids, this dark is far brighter than any real flame._

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_There, I can become what I yearn, I can achieve what I desire._

_I am what I desire. _

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_Flowers blossom within me, because I will them to, and happiness sparks from nothing, because nothing is what I have. _

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**_Nothing is what I choose_**_._

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_Perhaps now I can be without punishment, live without worry, and breath without fear._

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_Or perhaps, when I open my eyes, I’ll find the flowers growing in my mind are nothing but the gaping holes of what should have been._

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**_But never were_**_._

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_Because I stayed dreaming instead._