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I've fallen for the fallacy

Of fleeting success,

How this gradual progress

Is strictly inconsequential,

My waning potential

Veils my worthlessness,

How my attempts

At improvement

Only result in failure

Because I cannot change.



I've contoured myself

To the geometry

Of my insignificance,

How my accomplishments

Resemble shapes

Without distinction,

How my efforts to get out

Of this shell I've contained

Myself in are feeble

Because I'm sealed shut.



I need someone to

Crack me open

And sort out the remnants,

How my skewed mentality

Exposes that I'm

Disconnected from reality.

But we will find in the pieces

A priceless pearl.

Once hidden away,

It reveals all my worth.

Rewrite:

I've fallen for the fallacy
of fleeting success,
how this gradual progress
is strictly inconsequential.

My waning potential
veils my worthlessness.

How my attempts
at improvement
only result in failure
because I cannot change.

I've contoured myself
to the geometry
of my insignificance.

How my efforts to get out
of this shell I've contained
myself in are feeble
because I'm sealed shut.

I need someone to
crack me open
and sort out the remnants.

And in the disarray,
we will find in the pieces
a priceless pearl.

Once hidden away,
it reveals all my worth.