Claire

Claire

VT

13 years old

Posts

  • 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

  • peace is impossible

    I close the windows

    Lock the doors

    Turn off the lights

     

    I don’t ever want to leave this room.

    I am tired of drowning

    In a world

    That has never prepared me to swim.

     

  • I notice

    I notice

    You think I don’t

    But I do

    There are scars along your arms

    Signs of your suffering

    Bandaids that were no accident

    There are ghosts behind your eyes

    Seeking their release through your tears

  • Yeah I know

    What's wrong with you?

    Why can't you take a joke?

    Why don't you ever go anywhere?

    Why don't you talk to anyone anymore?

    Yeah, I know.

  • bloodshot

    My body

    drowning in a

    hoodie and sweatpants

    knowing it won't

    and can't

    muster the energy

    to get up.

    Not that I

    need to.

    It's the middle

    of the night.

    But it seems

  • 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.