Teen Discrimination Poems

In a world where I am Christen Kuikoua,
Yet each day, I question if it's truly me.
I can act, sing, and model with passion,
But my dreams...

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Unwritten absence, 
Does silence speak? 
Does silence fix problems? 
A person who wants to conceive a good thought 
He " she" can find a quiet...

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After deciding
To skip this one too,
Soon enough
Her face turned blue.
Thinking what damage,
Could a skipped meal do?
And if one won't,
Then so won't two.
So she sleeps on...

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Nerd.  Geek.  Loser.  No Good.  Waste of Life.

Words that pierced my heart every day of my youth.
It was constant degrading from...

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We were taught 
that to be qu**r
means to be strange,
to be unlike the rest,
to be different, 
but not in a way that would raise surprised...

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UKRAINE 

You reign!
You do not fight in vain
Don’t let your strength refrain 
Do not feel disdained! 

I’ve seen the bloodstains 
Spilling out like rains;
I may...

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A cheering squad in Utah,
At a high school, did include
A member with Down Syndrome 
With a bubbly attitude.

She worked extra hard at practice 
And was...

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9 to 5 at a dead-end job, staying on someone else’s couch.
Paycheck to paycheck, house to house.
This is how I survive, this is how I...

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Society’s Eyes

Society sees me
As something I am not
As someone who is to be
In their society until they rot
But not everyone
Wants to be a part
Of what...

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Darkness

Black as night
Dark in time
With no light
Can be sublime
To those who
Like the dark
Those who do
Like to hark
That dark is bad
Don’t know enough
To judge, which is...

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People

People who are gay
Are fun in their own way
People who are lesbian
Can be a wonderful thespian
People who are bi
Are ones able to soar and fly
People...

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FIGHT FOR FREEDOM 

         Journey of life under recurrent restriction.
       ...

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Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed...
Murderously Skewered, And Torturously Zapped

Directv linkedin to accentuate
piddly money crisis, tis zen uneasy fate,
I imagine dragons gyrate
ting, and licking chops,...

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JUST WRONG 

Throughout my life’s journey, I chanced to see,
Many things to this day that bother me,

The things that chose the path of my destiny,
the...

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A child who learned
To speak in hushed voices.
A girl who yearned
To make her own choices.

Then a teen who learned
To only sob quietly;
A teen who feared
An...

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