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Amongst the clover
Here you lie,
Upon the grass,
Clover disguising your fragile body.
Far away from your nest and kin,
How did you get here?
Ruining your innocence
Ruining mine
Comes the wheel -
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When
When I find
That maybe I don't love it anymore -
When I lost the spark
When I realized
I don't really care
If I make it,
Or don't -
It scares me.
I wander around at practice,
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A field of dandelions
Walking through a field of dandelions
Clinging to my wish,
Clutched in one hand,
Wondering what on earth
I could possibly ask this field of dandelions for.
Should I ask
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Conductor
He raises his hands,
And as our cue,
We begin our dance -
Instruments,
Communicating,
It's like we can talk to each other
Through the song.
He claps his hands twice -
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Bassline
I feel the drumbeat.
I feel the pulse of the music,
Reverberating around my ears and brain,
Twisting into my heart.
I feel the bassline
With each hit of the sound
Pulsating your energy around you
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Those two days
Two days
Was all it took.
A day of rehearsals;
Discussing, analyzing, perfecting -
And then the day
We performed.
The day that changed everything.
I gave myself to the notes on the page,
Loves
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How do I say
Why do you love this?
What makes you keep doing it?
I am always asked these questions.
How do I tell them
How do I say
That sometimes it's the only thing that matters to me?
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To Truly Be
How do I explain
that doubled over laughter
none of us
can play volleyball but
all of us
can laugh
and s'mores
you asked me
what I was doing
I was doing
it all wrong
you said
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The Silent and Still
I think I live for the silent and still —
The friends you made against your will.
The evening light,
The morning mist,
The impossible odds that you even exist.
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Solidarity
I can't believe it
I've never mentioned it for almost a year now
it turns out that I really can keep secrets for this long
from even myself
from the universe
from everyone else
from my confidants.
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Hours I Wasted
Look at me.
Again.
Sitting in a wreckage
I made with my own two hands.
Hours—
gone.
Dreams—
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Relentless
I screwed up.
Again.
Same damn wound, reopened—
blood and shame mixing,
staining every step I take.
I'm tired of putting on a show
I will learn this time.
I am stuck, really,