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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
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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
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If we were
If every girl
Looked liked a boy
Acted like a boy
Was a boy
Would we get farther
In life
Would we be respected
If every woman
Was a man
Would we be valued
Would we be able
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We Are Your Legacy
Dear leaders,
You say you love us
The children of your country
But you do what is best
For you
Even though
We are the future
Of our country
We are your legacy
How can you expect us
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Her Name Was May
There was this girl
With eyes the color
Of the sky that fills
Your childhood memories
She had dirty blond hair
Always in a braid
A braid that held more flowers
Then cherry blossom trees
Loves
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what’s next
she walks into the room like a sentence that forgot to whisper
light brown hair pulled back
clear glasses catching the light
tall enough to see past most people
loud enough not to care if they notice
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my next trick
it won't be flashy, showy, or
even remotely special to the untrained eye
but those who've suffered the burden of
knowing me will understand why
my next trick is magical.
from the seventh grader who
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dear madame president
i hope that you rest easy as the world
tumbles down into fire
for you did everything you could
& we didn't do enough. it was never
your fate to carry the failures of
common sense & education, but now
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Anymore
I don't know you anymore.
I learned this
Today.
Gone is the silly boy
As tall as I was
That purple beanie obsession
We all shared -
Tank tops in summer, Crocs all year round,
Not anymore.
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infinitely halfway
I want to grow up but I don’t.
But I do
but I don’t.
But lucky for me I don’t have to make that decision.
I’m forced to grow up whether I like it or not.
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A Girl Can Dream
When I saw you
No, not when I
saw you
But when I
saw you.
That was when I knew that there was something among me that needed you
always
to be
near me