Posts
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She cares
She cares
It’s like she felt the pain
In my heart
And understood it
All at once
She listens as
The words fall out of my mouth
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Backpack Straps and Expectations
I can’t tell what’s heavier on my shoulders
The weight of my backpack
Or the weight of the expectations
I don’t know what’s harder
Falling asleep at night
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The Truth of Being a Girl
Walking home after dark or that short top
Are blamed more then the man who didn’t listen to the woman yelling stop
Appalled?
Well at 10 I was catcalled
I’ve been grabbed
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Panic Attack in the School Bathroom
I can't breathe
My heads against the
Stall wall
The coldness keeping me
From passing out
My feet are on the
Gross ground
Trembling
I can barely tell
That the floor is solid
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Pink
When I was little
My favorite color
Was pink
I wore dresses
To school
With matching
Floral headbands
Then I turned ten
Loves
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second snow
I am chanting verse 9 of my first aliyah,
a bowl of blackberries and apple cinnamon Cheerios beside me,
fingers twirling the spoon, when -
out the window, there is snow.
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Love Lives On
Introduction: I’m writing a story that hopefully never comes true. I recently read Orwell’s 1984, and I saw some disturbing similarities to today’s United States under the Trump administration.
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Heartbeat & Haiku
Composed on a run
With autopilot turned on
And an old love song
Quick little poems
With no start, nor a clear end
Grown just in my head
In a cozy nook
Not unwritten, but unsaid
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sophomore year later
i used to dream
of the day
i started middle school,
thinking the excitement
of getting older
outweighed the pain
of growing up.
my teachers wondered why.
and now that i'm in
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fermata
I sob for
something I think I
hate, but cry "no no no"
when asked if I
want to quit.
Because I just can't.
There is no
possible way
that I could quit.
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Anxiety
The curtain call
I’m out of time
I dance with my hands tied