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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
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Happy Medium
I should be nice to look at
Presentable
Effortless
It shouldn’t look
Like I spend hours in the morning
Getting ready
Because that’s conceited
And no one likes a girl
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Loves
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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?
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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.
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The Bathroom Mirror
Give the lights a sickly yellow glow
Let me reflect
The scribbled-on stall doors and brightly-colored posters
Framing her face, to remind her
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Life, Freedom, Joy
For every woman being raped.
For every trans made illegal.
For every Native forced out of their home.
For every black person called “lesser.”
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HANDS OFF
I’m standing there, minding my own,
Unarmed, no threat, just skin and bone.
But he sees me, and I’m already guilty,
Not for what I’ve done, but for how I look, for where I’ve been, for the color of my skin. -
if only.
If only it was because
you were fifteen
and I was thirteen
but it wasn’t.
Not really.