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In the Dark, We Wait
Content Warning: This details my experience during a school lockdown that we presumed at the time to be an active shooter (it was not). There is no actual violence in this; there is only the dread of not knowing.
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April Headlines
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"World Food Programme stops aid for 650,000 women and children due to lack of funding"
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This I Believe (Names)
The ancient Greeks believed that names held power. I happen to agree.
I don’t remember when I first discovered this truth. It is something I feel like I have always known, since the moment I received my first name.
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A Yellow Violet
Her name was Violet,
but she always wore yellow.
I spied her from across the room as I hesitated in the sun-framed doorway, and she was beautiful.
Loves
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In the Dark, We Wait
Content Warning: This details my experience during a school lockdown that we presumed at the time to be an active shooter (it was not). There is no actual violence in this; there is only the dread of not knowing.
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concrete bloom
There’s a flower growing in the dirtiest of pits,
Rotting in the sewer,
Mildew seeping from the grate— untouched,
Bypassed by those who don’t stop to wait.
Buried,
A wisp of a wish— restless,
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when the wind remembers
I am from mythic hues of orange and blues,
Where the setting sun greets the gentle waves.
From solemn mornings and soft bed sheets,
To boisterous cackles and tire swings,
I am from the jostling of jewelry—
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I'll try.
I have never been a poet,
But for you I will try.
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as you lie
every night i lie in Bed
and wonder what you Think about -
am i the Dream that’s in your head
or are you fast asleep?
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Andromeda.
Nearly 5.2 billion people use the internet daily, whether for work, school, communication, or entertainment.
We were isolated; quarantined. The social strain was… immeasurable.