LadyMidnight

Twilight
Is made of paints
Splashed across heaven's crown.
But the crown is full of thorns 
And dusk gives way to all the cries.
Cries
Of pain
When you wake up and no longer have a sister.
Cries 
Of hunger

These are the Google Slides used at the 3/21 Voices for Change workshop on Social Justice. We hope they inspire you to do some of your own writing about these issues.
Thank you to all the young writers who came to our event!

Life is a dust storm
Whirling and twirling
Covering the uncensored thoughts of the people
And turning them in to strict patterned ideas.
This is why we don't stop.
This is why 

I am a puzzle piece
Full of angles and edges
Fitting perfectly next your piece
Your ends fitting with my beginnings
I am an edge piece 
Because I'm always looking ahead
Outside the puzzle.
You are a center piece

I think I'm an afterthought
Something remembered in footnotes
And then forgotten
And overlooked
Left to drift
Drift 
Drift
Away in the river of time.