Gali

Gali

VT

13 years old

Posts

  • Why Can’t I be Both

    Why can’t I be both 

    Why can’t I like

    Crop tops 

    And still support

    Women’s rights

    Why can’t I wear makeup 

    And still think 

    All bodies

    Are beautiful 

    Why is it bad

  • The Way Of Life

    One foot

    Infront of the other

    Head held high

    Flat expression

    On my face

    The only sign

    Of any emotion

    Are my fists

    Clenched by my sides

    Or my thumb

    Tapping each finger

  • I'm Sorry

    I'm sorry 

    I'm sorry for what 

    My country is doing 

    For what we seem to think 

    Is OK   

    I'm sorry for how 

    My president is acting 

  • Heart of Glass

    If I hand you my heart

    My heart made of glass

    Don't shatter it

    Don't have the shards

    Splay across the ground

    Don't hand it to someone else

    To crush it

    Beneath their fingers

    But if it does

  • Mascara

    The brush

    Covered in the black ink

    Swiped at my eyelashes

    Made its mark

    On my face

    At least

    That's what it used to do

    Now it sits quietly

    In its spot

    Far away from reach

Loves

  • Ashes

    No one died

    right?

    I wasn't affected

    but I am affected.

    I know them

    their situation

    we're good friends

    but why is all of this happening in my lifetime?

    In our lifetimes?

  • They knew what could be

    The little girl sat in her swing

    blond curls the way they are before

    you grow up the everywhere I don't care

    it looks like my hair was woven from sunlight

    a throne for a flower crown.

     

  • the body still blames itself

    If only i had smiled differently,
    worn a different skirt, a longer one,
    if i had stayed quiet, let him win,
    shrunk smaller, been easier to touch,
    been harder to hurt, laughed when i wanted to cry,
    cried when i wanted to scream.