Springsteen
I'm 14.
And I just saw Bruce Springsteen
Live for the first time.
I've loved him and his music since I was 6.
I've listened to him religiously since I was 7.
Poetry
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018751
018751 this was the lunch code I was given
My first day of third grade
My teacher wrote on my hand
With a green marker that smelled like berries
018751 this was the passcode for my first email -
Concealing Comfort
Concealing Comfort:
The day I saw you
Hanging there,
I knew we’d be the best of friends.
Bought you in a flash,
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Strength in Sacrifice
Strength in Sacrifice
Shining in the moonlight,
I knew you would be right.
Stones that shimmered,
Love that glimmered,
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Emojis
I scroll through the options
Endless rows
And rows
And rows
Of smileys
And animals
And faces
And people
And things.
I scroll through the multicolored hearts
The laughing faces
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Words Are Not Nothing
The world would have cried
From any other side
No matter the victor
No matter the lies.
Misinformed, unaligned
You think it's the first time?
Honestly, so gullible
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Trapped
I hear about all the things he does,
But what can I do?
Signs,
Bumper stickers,
Voices,
Celebrate the end.
For democracy,
Our country,
Ukraine,
the LGBTQIA2+ community,
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Forgotten
Whisked away,
In a dark unknown.
Long fingers pull us out.
Scrutinize.
We’re unlaced,
Laced again,
Step by step we thud against the ground.
White turns to gray,
Soles become worn,
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chosen one
I want my destiny
Given in my hand like a trophy.
I want to know what I'm made for,
Right now, I feel empty.
Everyone else has their purpose,
And they just seem to fit.
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Fictional Love
I want that feeling
The thing in books
In movies
The fictional love
The one I dream about
The one that I see online
The one I read about
I want not just the butterflies
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1920 days
192o days
Until the next election
Each day a struggle
1920 days of living
In this place
How many laws and bills can be made
In this place
How many people can get hurt
How many people will cry
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Silent Screams
My sadness reaches down my mouth.
Her cool slippery hands snatching the breath i have left to breathe
She persuades my anger to do the same;
They love to torture together.