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Best Poems Written by Rachel Minami

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Lion Heart

You left your lion heart with him
Buried your problems in his mane
You gave up your snapping jaws
Because you thought it’d keep you sane
You didn’t see the joy of living
With a swinging tail and cutthroat jaws
You wanted to be independent
So you left behind the jungle’s laws
You didn’t think that you’d miss him
You didn’t think that you’d look back
But a pang of envy cuts your heart
When you see him roaring with the pack
You admire his lions from afar
You feel your stomach start to churn
Because you know that you’ve lost hope
You’ve passed the point of no return
They all tried to make you stay
Didn’t know why you’d leave them behind
They desperately tried to see beyond
The walls you built to keep them blind
Now they mourn the loss of you 
You’ve gone somewhere they can’t follow
They know that you can’t feel their pain
The tragic reality they have to swallow
Mourning leads them into sadness
And sadness leads to pain
Drowning in their agony
They start to feel the strain
He tries to wish you back to earth
But you cannot leave the sky
Back to all their grieving hearts
Is the only place you cannot fly
How you wish for your fur back
How you wish for the old ways
Seeing his deflated spirit
Makes you wish for better days
Do you realize the gravity of your absence?
What subduing your roaring spirit has done?
The jungle longs for your steady heartbeat
The weight of your footsteps as you run
He misses your calming reassurance
The presence that makes his very soul sing
And he still fails to understand 
Why you chose to leave everything
In pulling away you inspired doubt
Leaving is not what kings of the jungle do
And it will only be a matter of time
Before he gives up his lion heart for you

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Fire Song

I despise everything that I do
But I haven’t stopped yet
I leave smoking charcoal in my wake
But I like to call it regret
When I feel a spark of light
I dread what will come next
Why do I kill all I see?
To this day it leaves me vexed
I see falling water rain down on me
And I’m temporarily relieved
You think that I enjoy destruction
But you are monstrously deceived
I hate that I cannot stop myself
I loathe the psychopath inside
My guilt grows with each branch that falls
From the tress that have nowhere to hide
My reign of terror does not stop in the forest
I attack the innocent children as well
Men and women who did no wrong
Fall victim to my burning spell
Who will listen to my plea?
Surely all are drenched in doubt
When they hear the desperate song
Of the fire that longs to be put out

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Rules

Be mundane
Don't be sane
Always be lost
Give the cost
Pay for pain
Pray for rain
Suffering is beauty
Dying is duty
Don't say love
Don't look above
Ignore the guilt
Society's built
Accept the hate
Take the bait
Never think
Let yourself sink
Never care
Enjoy despair
Follow the laws
Cut out the flaws
Submit to strife
This is life

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Society

Every kindness has a price
All will suffer for being nice
Loving is not something we do
Nobody else should come before you
All will take advantage of your kindness
People will label you stricken with blindness
Everyone kind will be taken as weak
If you harbor goodwill, your future looks bleak
Nobody just does good on a whim
The fate of the world starts to look grim
Nobody remembers how to care
Some want to love but they do not dare
Everyone has forgotten how to be good
When given the chance, nobody would
Everything pure goes up in a blaze
Waiting for someone to change the world’s ways

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The Jar

a girl owns a jar
known as a happy girl
not showing her true self
she saves up the negative emotions
stores them in her jar
then
when the jar is full
she shatters it on paper
black stained glass
thousands of pieces
across the page
she watches
anguish, anger, anxiety
seeping into hard pencil lead
picking up the pencil
she shapes the emotions
drags her pencil though the fear
swirls it over the pain
plunges it into the rage
her emotions for words
death, depression, despair
poured into stories and rhymes
told they are good
that she has natural talent
these emotions do her well?
confused, she keeps writing
until her words run out
and she sets out on a journey
to find a bigger jar

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Pretend

Come now, girl, and tell me
Why do you never cry?
Why do you never feel in your heart
What you show on the outside?
You smile more often than you feel happy
You laugh more often than not
Why doesn’t anyone question your sanity?
If only they could see what you really thought
Why do you flash your teeth to please them?
Why do your eyes crinkle when you’re placed on a shelf?
Why do you live your life in boxes
Hearing them more than you hear yourself?
You see your life crumble before your eyes
And yet no one can see your grief
Why do you always drown yourself
And allow everyone else to breathe?
No one seems to look past your walls
No one seems to search for the heart
Why do none look hard enough
To witness as you break apart?
You perform for all people every day
They stand and enjoy the show
They watch, oblivious to the work that it takes
What happens backstage, they don’t care to know
They cannot feel how your knees buckle
Or how your heart constricts in your chest
They cannot see how the light in your eyes
Has finally been put down to rest
You truly are amazing, girl
How do you manage to stay so strong?
You stand with a smile that never falters
No other could ever last this long
They all see the world in vibrant color
While you only see black and white
Do you wonder what things look like in the day
Instead of the constant darkness of night?
No one notices while you fade away
While you suffer, nobody cares
Why is no one here to see
The burden that this little girl bears?
One day this pain and grief will end
One day you will leave the lonely path
Sometimes your existence has to be cut short
In order for the world to feel your wrath
Crumbling to dust on the inside
While pretending to stand tall
Congratulations, little girl
You’ve done it, you’ve fooled them all

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The End

I see colors all around
Shifting silently without a sound

Red for the blood running through my veins
Echoing memories of phantom pains

Orange for the splattered skies
Oblivious to this world of lies

Yellow for the shining sun
Growing dimmer as each day is done

Green for the leaves abstract with dew
Falling like the peace we never knew

Blue for the ocean, swift and strong
As it pulls the rolling waves along

Purple for the violet night
A kingdom under starry light

Grey for the vibrancy fading out
As the earth follows its deadly route

Brown for the soil where life is grown
But also where lost friends call their home

Pink for the touch of the sweetest kiss
If only reality were as perfect as this

Silver for the blade of a knife
Cutting through despair and strife

Gold for what we all want and need
Shattering perfect love with greed

Black for the deepest depths of my soul
The darkness I’ll never be able to control

These colors flashing before my eyes
Disappearing as the universe dies

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Coming Back

You thought that you could leave me broken
Wrecked, not knowing what to do 
Stealing away everyone else
So I could only run back to do
But now my heart is shattered
And I feel no emotion inside
And when I come running, empty, to you
There will be no place for you to hide
Without a heart, I feel nothing for you
You can go and do as you will
Because my pain is stronger than your satisfaction
And my fractures are sharp enough to kill

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Life

This life is a series of massacres
not an ongoing war
an onslaught of broken words
and dreams shattering to the floor
the guns are only firing from the attacking side
in life we cannot fight back
we cannot turn the tide
sometimes life gives us good
gives us rainbows through the rain
we try to mend our broken pieces
only to watch them split again
there is nothing we can do
no hope for him or her
for life is not an ongoing war
life is a massacre