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Into the meadow
Into the meadow we run together,
Faces shining in the sun.
Beneath the starry sky we wander,
'Til what we seek is done.
We play and we laugh
We joke and we splash
In the waters of a shimmering lake.
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Hello
We went to Montreal recently
On a school trip for our band.
We almost didn't have a performance to go watch
Or a friendship concert with another school
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Inescapable
The solidity of the darkness
The ever-cascading waters
Sharp and dangerous, altogether hardly enticing
Await me wherever I wander within my mind.
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Stuck in my head
Stuck in my head
The lyrics go round and round.
Unstoppable, insurmountable
A cacophony of sound.
They won’t go away
And with each repitition
I can feel my brain exploding
Like nuclear fission.
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Stepping Stones
I take steps.
Tiny steps.
One
Step
At
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Do You Know
Do you know how many minutes I save for you
So we can be together?
Do you know how it feels
When you throw them out
For other things?
Do you know how it feels
To never feel like you're good enough
Loves
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Empty Space
It’s over
they’ve left
their farewell party has ended
the streamers lying in crumpled heaps on the ground
the paper chains that had once hung on the walls have fallen,
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Love
Love will not heal me.
I will always be a girl of many scars.
But love can teach me to forgive.
Love can give me many reasons for why I should live.
It can even change me, for better or for worse.
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The Angler Fish
I wake up this morning.
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Dandelion Fluff
Sam and Willa lay on their backs in the overgrown grass of his yard, her describing the shape of the clouds for him to paint as a picture in his head.
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Sentimentality
Sentimentality
all the time
wishing to be younger
to be somewhere else.
I wish that I was in fourth grade again
and everyone was friends
and everyone was happy and content
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Everything
I want to write about everything
the steady rain
the misery
the end of school
the upcoming event
the natural world
the current political universe of doom
but I can't phrase it