The truth hurts, doesn't it?
...You moan about how we say life isn't fair
But it shouldn't have to be fair for equality to exist
Life being fair isn't being born into luxury
Its being rich in safety
An automatic right we all s...
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Categories:
invalidation, discrimination, jobs, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
invalidation, 10th grade, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Misunderstood
...I don’t even know if I know the real me,
Isolation, invalidation, a life going unseen
I’ve always felt this way,
invisible I guess
Automatic assumptions -
of my intellect
Like rumors spreading,...
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Categories:
invalidation, emotions, fear, identity, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Wrong Note
...On my first day of kindergarten, Mrs. Miller takes roll.
She begins some sort of symphony, a rapid chorus,
Emma, Jake, and Katie sing, Here, Here, Here!
Then, I hear a cacophony that doesn’t match...
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Categories:
invalidation, extended metaphor, innocence, music,
Form: Free verse
The Purple Inside a Rainbow
...I think I've always seen the world in color
Bright radiants wisping within
There was no realization discover
It's something that always been
Others around me paint in black and white
Expectati...
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Categories:
invalidation, color, deep, feelings, growth,
Form: Rhyme
This Poem Is About Myself
...does it not feel
as though
the world
hovers between our lips,
magnetized poles
locking to each other
because that’s all they know,
as they touch?
does my hand on
your waist
not feel as th...
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Categories:
invalidation, me,
Form: Free verse
Living Sickness
...Submerged in my own filth
Discombobulated desire
Cold spun out breezes
Every animated thing covered in a layer of
Sickness and frost
Eyeballs heavy with the breath
of men long dead
Opening...
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Categories:
invalidation, history, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
I'M Tired of Talking, I'M Talking Real Tired
...I'm tired of talking,
I'm talking real tired,
I need to fly away from this,
but I can't get up any higher,
there's some kind of barricade,
it feels like an obstacle course,
I need to silence th...
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Categories:
invalidation,
Form: Rhyme
The Angel
...he waits in the eaves
for his nameth to be call'd,
summon'd by those more selfish than he coulds't ever fathom.
he harks to their sorrows
and grants naught but kind words-
courageous and fill'...
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Categories:
invalidation, angel, depression, forgiveness, how
Form: Free verse