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Death Grip

Happy September guys! This next one seems a little ominous, I'm aware. But I have an explanation. I'll start by telling you it's origin. I was watching a movie called "All I See is You" and I heard a song called "In Our Dreams" by Blake Lively. I listened to it on repeat for almost two hours while I pulled open my laptop and just wrote, I didn't have a story topic in mind, I was just whisked away by the melody and the story of the movie. It was just a familiar feeling that washed over me, inspiration and emotion. The food for my writing. Behind the words of the poem, however, is something I have been sitting on for a few weeks. I remember a quote I seen on Instagram that read "Be the person you needed when you were younger" and I recall feeling an intense rush of inspiration from it.. It was a jackpot topic for a poem. But it never came. When I was younger, I dreamed of being a woman of the world, inspirational and memorable. I want