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Deep in the heart of the crowd

The Heart of the Swarm walked tall, proud

On the outside, her beauty is quite unmatched

On the inside, her soul feels lonely, detached

She surrounds herself with friends

To shelter her from the pain

The reality that she dreads,

Blows falling like rain

Without her, the swarm cannot exist

She lives off their attention, a parasitic cyst

Yet she drives them onward as their Queen

Spitting hot venom at those who won’t appease

They avoid anyone they deem ‘uncool’

A moniker for which only they make the rules

No one knows why she has become so harsh

Or why she leaves all those that love her in the dark

They do not see the empty bottles in her home

Or the father full of rage, eyes not his own

They don’t hear the cries of pain,

Because she suffers quiet as a mouse

She hides the slashed wrists

Under the long sleeved blouse

No one cares when she leaves, or worries until she returns

She knows the hard way that pain is given, not earned

So she lets out the rage, on others, on herself

To try and forget the sting of the welts

Until one day she returned and decided she had enough

She stood firm and finally called her Father’s bluff

A decision she knew would cause her strife,

But never considered it would cost her life.

The friends who laughed with her at others,

reveled in their pain

Now cry over her body,

Their Queen never to rise again

While they mourn her death,

others laugh and cheer

Never again

will they feel the Swarm’s fear

As their hearts break,

The Swarm dissolves

Stabbed in the heart

And pierced is their resolve.