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To Dance
To dance is to soar
To feel what it's like for the birds
To be free in the air
If only for seconds,
Because in your mind, it will last a lifetime
To dance is to be electric
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Synonyms
I hate the way
Skinny is now a synonym for pretty
Pretty a synonym for happy
Happy a synonym for enough
Enough is something we will never be
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She Cries Too
She is filled with more beauty than anything else
She is made in the very image of God
She is crafted by His hands, formed and fixed to be divine
She holds flowers and bugs and skies
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Hair
Your hair was always beautiful,
Long and luciousous,
Everyone always loved it.
But then you cut it off.
Long strands fly away to the floor,
While you're in the bathroom,
Closed door.
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A Girl I Never Knew
To the girl I never really knew,
I cried the other night about you
Probably just half what you went through
I never thought to care
About your lips your eyes your stare
The pain you held, I had no clue
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If I could
(Inspired by Astronomy by Conan Gray)
I'd walk you out if I could
Open and close the door ever so gently
Hold your hand as we slowly say goodbye
Loves
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Next
I'm nervous
And I'm scared.
Meeting new people -
Not my thing.
I can be outgoing
I can be anyone they want me to be
Anyone who will be liked
But me
I will thrive
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On My Sixteenth Birthday
On my sixteenth birthday.
I curled into a ball in the frayed, silk afterglow of childhood,
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When You Are Old
When you are old
Your skin will become like paper,
And your bones will be like the wooden ribs
Of a lantern
So that the world will see the light in your chest.
But I don't need to wait -
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Can I Go Back
Can I go back
Back to the place I call home
Full of laughter and love
The place where I sleep above my friend
As I'm surrounded by so many others
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1am
Home is
trying not to smudge
our still-sticky nail polish
on the carpet
as we sit
cross-crossed
on the floor
spilling secrets
& memories
our speech sliding