Poetry

You know what I was robbed of

who I don't get to be anymore

yet you,

you sit there and flaunt it.

I felt myself losing.

Leave me.

I don't want to see you

and talk to you and 

Pity the widow

who sits on the bench

she and her husband

sat on

Pity the widow

who screamed when

she saw her husband

Freedom is a thing

Written into the amendments

Into our hearts

Something we are promised

But promises break

And America's promise

Was never fully whole

It was always broken

Freedom is not

"What is love?"

To me love is

Trust

Loyalty

Love is your best friend, your family, really it can be anything

It's not perfect but it's not nothing

Love is when someone will stay by you side no matter what.

Oh, look at the leaves. 

Look at how they fly. 

Look at how they circle, 

Freckling the sky. 

Longer than forever

I will love you longer than forever 

The time I've spent alone has convinced me that I am far too old to wait for something more

I've always wanted it

1.

I walked today, amongst several colors of grasses and amidst winds that scraped and soaked my silver face, wet from the morning dew, and sore from the strong pull of the corners of my mouth.

One day, on a dry summers night,

A winged monster swooped in, looking for a fight

It burned and it broke everything it could find,

Then it left, leaving carnage behind
 

You may not understand

What it is

To look your future in the eye

And have it blink

To not know

If your rights

Will be your rights

Joining my friends in front of the door to my school.

People chanting:

Let us in!!

Let us in!!

Finally they open the door and I walk inside.

When we were young, we didn't care how we looked, we didn't care how we dressed or what we liked. 

When we were young, we loved playing tag or hide-in-seek 

But ... 

Now ... 

Hello Fall, 

I see you outside my window, 

I pass you every day on our road. 

Do you know what secret life holds? 

Hello Fall, 

What happens when it starts to snow?