dandelions

I want to write something beautiful

but I don't have anything beautiful inside me.

This spring it has been cloudy and rainy almost everyday,

but oh...those sunny days.

I used to walk into a theater and it was salvation.

Stage lights and people who filled up a room, 

I was happy to watch them for hours.

I wanted to become some part of that

some part of the instant admiration

Can you remember

Who you were

Before the world told you

Who you should be?

__________________________

i was too much

for you

someday

I’ll be enough

For someone

This is for everyone

Who has criticized

The body of a child:

You have taken everything from me.

Today 

An eleven-year-old girl

Is sitting in a hospital bed