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Joy

There’s a lot of joy 
In the quiet classroom corner 
Sheltering my thirst for 
New little things to pick apart 
I love that here, I am allowed to be curious 
I know my questions won’t always be rewarded 
But now, debating an annotated essay 
My brain does a little dance
And I remember school can be fun

Copyright © Laney McDonald | Year Posted 2026


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Hello, Goodbye

Hello world 
I’d like you to go away now 
You’re a little too bright 
And not enough wonderful 

Give me a second 
To adjust to the blinding 
Hazard signs 
Flashing in corners of 
Unmarked alleys 
Where shadows dance 
Hand in hand 
With Greed 

Let me adjust to the 
Gloomy speckles of 
Fading starlight 
As forgotten souls 
Burn out - out of 
View from the rest of 
The Universe

Give me a minute
To wrap my newborn mind 
Around the fact 
That you use children 
For pleasure 
Let me learn that 
Abusers deserve compassion 
More than a family deserves food 

Goodbye world 
I forgot that you cared more about 
Money’s birth than mine 
He got a better welcome 
And a throne to crawl into

Copyright © Laney McDonald | Year Posted 2026

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Wake Up

Figure this
all I know 
crumples upon waking 
How do dreams 
present truth
over life? 
Life, divided by terror 
Life, splitting synapses
but Death
Death dare not stray 
from her rightful course 
easy to seduce, 
when life a nightmare 
walking

Copyright © Laney McDonald | Year Posted 2026

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