Posts
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Unique
I am unique
I have hearing loss
I feel as if it is harder for me to fit in
I feel as if I am a puzzle piece that can’t fit
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Assumptions
I hate the fact that so many people make assumptions.
About me.
The “fact” that because I have hearing aids means that I am deaf.
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Singled Out
I always feel singled out of the crowd.
I wonder why they chose me.
I wonder why they don’t pick on anyone else when I am around.
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Rumors
Rumors.
They suck.
I had one about me
That I was dating a girl that I was just friends with
But according to middle school boys that means that we are
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Feelings
I find myself both fearful and mad
At the outcome that happened on November 5.
I find myself wanting to curl into a ball and hide from it all for four years.
But I can’t.
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Scared
I woke in the middle of the night
Oblivious to the pain that would come in 4 hours
When I woke up to my dad next to my bed a sad look on his face
My world shattered.
Loves
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Grow Up
When I come home from school
and my parents ask how my day was
my answer is almost always
"Irritating"
or
"Bad"
or
"A pain in the butt".
Why?
Because my classmates will
scream
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fighter
once i sat down on the curb and told you, love, these things aren't what we're used to.
we're stop signs like angels circulating (don't breathe, don't move)-
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living
" if i am killed for simply living, let death be kinder than man. " - Kinder Than Man, Althea Davis.
if i am killed,
mangled and beaten,
for simply living,
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Sit and Listen.
“Harris is a communist,” My grandfather protests.
“Better a communist than a felon,” My father shoots back.
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Stained-Glass Girl
you should be an image in stained-glass windows
the same ones you trace with your eyes every sunday
while hymns echo in your ears, words
you've known so long you forget the meaning.
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Morning, But Not Really
it’s 2am and i’m still lying awake
with thoughts in one hand and feelings in the other.
how can i go to sleep with a head full of stars
and my face running away
up into the sky