LadyMidnight

(Written in response to the challenge "Activist" in the workshop, Poetry with Alexandra Contreras-Montesano)

I am underestimated.

People look at me and see an average white American teenager.
13 years old

Look around you
Everything is there
Life is holding things inside me
Words pouring from my mouth
Tell me 
Your secrets
Your hidden thoughts
That you are bottling up.
Tired eyes stargazing

Broken things
Tears flowing like a river
Tissues stop working
Falling
Falling
Falling

Wake up