A powerful, agonizing meditation on legacy, this poem is a refusal to be sanitized after death. The author challenges the expected platitudes and elegies, asking if people will “bend the truth to fit their view” and portray them as a saint. The voice demands that tormentors acknowledge “what they did to me first”. The true […]
This is an emotional reckoning with the chilling reality of school violence in America. The poem centers on the brutal lesson students must learn: the three words “Run. Hide. Fight”. A recent school shooting in Georgia made the threat terrifyingly tangible. The piece guides us through the familiar, horrifying ritual of the lock-down drill: hiding
A profoundly personal piece that begins with a devastating statistic: every 11 minutes someone attempts to “leave the world behind”. The poem explores the crushing internal pressure to be perfect and the fear that asking for help will be met with judgment: “She just wants attention” or “She’s weak”. The narrative shifts to an anguished
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This is a solemn requiem for a fundamental freedom lost. It honors the 1973 landmark decision, Roe v. Wade, which gave women the dignity of privacy and bodily autonomy. The verdict, passed 7-2 by an all-male court, was a “miracle” that allowed women to choose their careers and their lives. The poem’s emotion centers on
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