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shades
The tree stands tall,
The leaves an acid, disgusting, green
The trunk a rotting, putrid brown.
The trees were once something to smile at,
In a time forgotten long ago,
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what you become
I’m a blank sheet, a book unwritten,
A sponge, as dry and brittle as the desert,
ready to soak up my surrounding,
no matter what it is, no biases,
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for a moment
I’m so busy now,
Even when I’m not, I’m busy,
Online, scrolling mindlessly, thoughtlessly,
Deeper and deeper into the well,
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history
My history is written,
Enclosed in the minds on those who knew me,
Twisted and fractured.
Changed by time and perspective,
Stored in the records of the country,
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in my head
Silence, loud, deafening silence. I can’t look her in the eyes, but I can’t rip mine away, so I stare. It’s not awkward or anything, I mean she’s staring too.
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Boxes
I’m put in a box
Here I’ll stay, as from the edge
I was pushed away
Loves
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speechless
Sometimes words fall out senselessly,
no meaning attached.
But because they need to,
not necessarily because
they want to be revealed.
It's as if my pen
has control over me,
writing whatever comes
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The Flame She Carries
Hope always looks like
something golden and beautiful and bright
but Hope has just fallen
her face streaked with dirt
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before your work goes on
(i mean)
the work goes on
(in shouted songs & permanent marker protest signs
in places i'm not sure if i can still call home)
the cause endures
(in all the children born to these times and
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Moral Reminder to Myself
No one looks like a villain once dead.
There is no threat in a lifeless body,
In screaming mothers and weeping daughters.
Once exposed, his blood is no longer poison.
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relatable silence
It's that time of year again
where some "news" are formed
and some "olds" are forgotten.
The faces of friends
become familiar again,
while last year's math formulas
do not.
We come together
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Trees Talk
The trees talk,
you know?
They talk and if you listened
you would know,
they whisper
like kindergarteners
who can't stand straight in lines
but they can jump straight