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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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Accepting the Truth
The hardest part
Wasn’t
Noticing the signs
Hoping they won’t notice the way they hurt you
Knowing they don’t care
Leaving first
Telling yourself to move on
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Insanity
To remember
Is to live in the past
Unable to forget
The wonder and happiness
That emerged from the darkness
To remember
Is insanity
To do the same thing repeatedly
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Someday I'll Be Okay
I can’t pretend anymore
I’m not okay,
I’ve never been okay
And I don’t think I’ll ever be okay
But every day I’m trying
Every day I’m learning to love the flaws he hated
Every day I’m writing
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January 2nd, 2024
I let the phone ring when he calls;
He’s done enough wrong today.
There’s a moment of silence,
Broken by the fourth FaceTime call.
I’m tired of the ringing;
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the pleas of a prisoner
My name is Lucy Danto. I am in the eighth grade at the McCullough Junior High School in Texas. Please, if even for a brief moment, let my voice be heard.
Loves
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a mirror to your face, a prickle to your nape
We all hold hands with murderous intent
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the line between good and evil
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A Letter to Congress
I will kneel on broken glass as
my blood stains the pearly sheen so that
you will see I've resorted to my last option: begging
before you (as a woman should be) to rip
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Beating Wings
I've heard that hope is a Vicious thing
It claws its way up from the soil of Contempt and Despair
It brings with it the Memories of a past life and the Longing for a future
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She didn't take the train.
The last time I saw Her. It feels so much more final to say it that way, but I guess it’s the same outcome either way. When I think about it logically, I can understand that She’s never coming
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Shattering
Sitting in uncomfortable silence,
We wait for our problem to be solved.
Changing my habits, I hope and hope.
We have been given so much,
And we have taken so greedily.
Caring is beyond so many, it seems.
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MY RIGHTS
"You want your rights?"
"Come and get it," said the snake.
It was wrapped around a tree
in the confines of his tail,
a paper labeled "YOUR RIGHTS."
I stared up at the snake,