Posts
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Waiting
People brush past me
Clouds shift across the sky
The sun inches down
The sky turns warm
I hear people
Yelling,
Laughing,
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Who They Say
He is heartless, they say.
But why did he give the little girl
A piece of his meager bread?
He is calculating, they say.
But why does he not take advantage
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Whisked Away Forever
One morning
I woke up,
With the stars shining in my face
Amidst the gentle midnight blue sky.
No sun to greet me,
No moon to comfort me.
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Beneath the Beauty
Dancing, leaping, twirling
Gracefully,
Effortlessly,
Perfectly.
But beneath it all
Is
Bruises
Pain
Twisted ankles
Broken bones
Disappointment
Practice
Learning
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Free
A snowy slope
Dark green trees
Snow pelting my goggles
I’ve never seen anything so beautiful,
Yet I’ve never been so afraid.
I look at the steep slope before me
Take in a big breath
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Reaching Eternally
There is a boy
And there is a girl.
Their love for each other
Is so vast
They would walk
Loves
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Legacy
What will they think of us?
200 years into our future
Long after our stories have faded,
After our lives' missions have been put to rest,
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Numbers and Statistics
Convinced that their democracy
Is the only democracyMy brethren fall heavily into the rubble
A reflection of my own clay,
A memory of our shared fire. -
The Cabin Will Be Gone
Once upon a time,
there was a cabin.
It was not big,
it was not grand,
but it was ours.
Our great-grandparents built it so many years ago,
they wanted a cabin that would be passed down for generations.
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Momentary
To be young is to feel the grass growing beneath your feet
And wander through the woods aimlessly
To see the little, quiet things unnoticed by all else
And say,
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Somewhere to Live, Someone to Love
There’s a place I want to live
And someone I want to love
I want to live in a place
So full of joy
That it fills me too
So full of people
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Sweetness that melts
There’s a quiet beauty
in the things you know won’t last,
moments already fading
even while you’re inside them.