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a failing grade
Is it possible to fail with an A+
Or do I just feel like I'm failing myself?
I'm the best one in your class,
But I still send emails making excuses for my declining grades.
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opening night thoughts
We both have short hair,
We could probably measure the inches,
Down to the centimeters, and the millimeters,
And it'd be the same length.
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I See Forever
I saw you today
And it felt like forever.
Your eyes are like a poet's,
Everything fades when you're around
And I need you to know it.
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A list of all the things I know I'll never get to have
I just want someone
To hold me like you did,
But in a way I'm not suffocating
Under their poisonous grip.
I want to fall in love,
As October comes into focus;
Running through those woods,
Loves
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I’m not brave enough to write his name
We made a bet when we were sixteen.
Actually, you were fifteen.
I knew I’d lose. I did it so you would continue to speak to me. I liked seeing you care about something healthy.
Is that okay to say?
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Secret
It lives in cupped hands
Around sorry ears,
Behind closed mouths shut up tight,
A wrench in the steel factory gears.
A hidden prism refracting light,
Shining through the cracks in firmly pressed fingers.
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you're on your own, kid
i always have been, ever since the label of
"gifted" was mantled above my head in neon letters,
proudly displaying me to a world where
mediocrity was rejected &
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"Why didn't you ask for help?"
“Why didn’t you ask for help?”
When I didn’t write for weeks
I was asking for help
When I stopped smiling
When I stopped laughing
When happiness became fake
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Being a Poet
Being a poet
I think to be a poet means
To be one to bleed out
On lined paper
And express the hurt
you must feel.
