Disclaimer: If I owned X-Men, my computer wouldn't be a three-year-old beige box. I'd be a brand new flatscreen with built-in speakers.

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Lance:

How can you sleep at night

Hearing

The closest thing you have

To a best friend

Cry himself to sleep

Because of what his

Father did

To him

And his sister.

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Pietro:

How can you sleep

On a tear-stained pillow?

With memories

Of your father

And your sister

Of before.

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Todd:

How can you sleep at night

Knowing

That the woman you love

Has been

Messed-up

Dolled-up

Used

And thrown away?

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Wanda:

How could you sleep at night

If you knew what really happened

Who Magneto is

And what he did

To shatter your happiness

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Fred:

What happens at school

Doesn't stay there.

Does it?

It come home

And nests in your mind

Like a ton of gold bricks.

The laughter

The fights

Is it worth it?