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They set fire to my flesh,
They say it cleanses me.
Yet all the while all they do is fill me,
With toxins and poisons and infections.
I am infectious, I am dangerous if you see me on the street avoid me at all cost, because those who tossed me wander around lost.
I am infectious I am dangerous I'm meant for so much good, yet used for so much evil! I am evil.I pierce the flesh and cause pain but at a simple press of a button I ease everything at the cost of everything. Paralyze all that cross my path breaking down homes and chopping down trees of families at the simple press of a button. I drive men to do things they never thought they would do.I drive women to be things they never thought they would be, crushing dreams and minds at the simple press of a button.I am the orphaned child wishing he had a home to call his own because momma couldnt take care of her own, as long as I was in her life. So now he jumps around foster homes in leaps and bounds trying to escape the grasp of those trying to keep him down.
Some people love me, yet all the while they hate me,Wish they can put me down, but im infectious I am dangerous. So they set fire to my flesh, they say it cleanse me.

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