Claire

Claire

VT

13 years old

Posts

  • Learn to Fall

    I get it, you have it worse,

    I get it, you're in pain,

    I get it, I don't matter,

    Not to you, anyway.

    So when you call my name,

    I shall fast come running,

    Leave myself behind,

    Even as I'm losing time.

  • The Girl Inside

    It’s only been a few days and sadness feels so far away

    This feeling, it isn’t salvation

    The girl who used to scream for others pains is shut out

    She fights to be free, to make me suffer for something I don’t feel nor control

  • Still Here

    Did you ever know how much your pain hurt me?

    That it haunted my sleep?

    That I tried to feel it?

    That I cared even then?

Loves

  • fading freedom

    Protest after protest,

    chant after chant. 

    I watch and listen

    as people continuously fight for their rights.

    But the fighting should’ve been over

    on July 4th, 1776

    when it was declared that

  • blood, white, and blue

    It's 12:34 AM on July 5th, 2025 and I still see fireworks going off in the sky.

    I hear the booms, the bangs, the commotion of endless fireworks

    going on for hours

    still raging

    on a brand new day.

  • 249th

    blow out your candles. 

    make a wish.

    hold up a protest sign.

    tonight the fireworks spell R E S I S T.

    your hair's in pigtails braided red blue and white.

  • Next to you

    Next to you

    Not a big deal

    Natural

    Normal

    Eyes

    Joking

    Teasing

    I could touch you

    The bracelet on your wrist

    Our bracelet

    I could talk to you about it

    I'd lose my train of thought