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To My Teenage Self
i know you've noticed.
the change in your eyes,
like they used to be bluer.
i know you've noticed
that something's missing from the sky,
like it's gone grayer.
i know you long for me,
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autobiography
her hands are chapped and raw from anxiously
peeling away her skin
so she goes through every fidget she can find
and wears them down until they break.
her lips and nose are red and cracked
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Winter Sunsets
you used to love the snow and ice
the dark and stormy winter nights
December's magic festive glow
now seems many years ago.
you crave the warmth of summer's kiss
let sunlight bring you back to bliss
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Lost in Time
I'll find you in the golden hour
I see your eyes in the trees
when the world, for an hour, is rimmed with glow
I'll look for you in the leaves.
I'll find you in the pink hour
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Love Me Like Fog
love me
like the fog –
like the fog loves december –
for the winter gets blurry
and it's hard to remember
hold me
like the fog –
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A Map of My Heart
It's a thin, fragile book
you would keep in a desk
the cover is elegant
and the pages, a mess
In black and red ink
Loves
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sunshine vs. gold
You told me I was made of pure sunshine
I tried to believe you
I did
I promise
But how can I be sunshine
When she is made of pure gold
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The French of the Trench
Le François de la Tranchée
With my stomach on the ground, I look over the parapet and into the trench. Nobody could be seen.
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Not yours
Women’s bodies are not yours for the taking
Not your land that’s up for sale
Not your home to destroy
Not your food to fill your belly
Take your greed elsewhere please
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A land of the free?
America
Anew
As a child brown from oppression and a desire to be free,
It must learn,
It must remember,
It must never forget,
That freedom for some isn’t freedom,
Freedom for all was promised,
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Love
Everyone has searched for love,
Many have been blessed by love,
When you find the one you love you never want to let go,
But yet many have been cut by the double-edged sword of love,
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We Are Not Alone
Sometimes I think about how expansive the universe is. I don't like to think about it too much though, because I can't quite comprehend it all. For example, the universe is growing, right, but what is it growing into?