Writing

I’m an expert at knowing, my mother tells me I’m wise beyond my years, and she said I’m emotionally intelligent-but she and I both know that’s not true, she’s telling me this so I don’t have to burden her by telling her my problems.

I’m one of those people,

That won’t stop scrolling.

Yet I senselesly double tap

The screen.

When it says that phones are bad.

That we need to talk 

No, you don’t.

But I do though.

I have something to say about real issues and you say that I don’t.

While you all are just spitting what others want to hear.

let me tell you what i saw today

when i was downtown with 200k others

in the heart of the city of the nation,

a swamp raised to stand above the world. with

flags & 

signs &

Sunny days brought her life.

The flower loved sunny days.

She flourished under the bright star,

smiled at its rise.

But then the next day,

it rained.

Hard.

Like a thunderstorm.

When you were a kid,

When you were still learning animal names,

And awed by the world around you,

What did it mean when you looked up,

At other kids, at adults,