Alyssa

Feb 2018

Austin Heath

Hearing someone you thought was a friend of yours say,
"Women can totally look to get *****".
Then you scratch one friend off the list.

#feminism #culture #**** #feminist

Feb 2018

Maya

and we could not vote before 1920

you treat me like a child.

"Here, it looks too heavy for you. I'll take it."

"You can't be a priest, you're a girl."

"Shouldn't you know how to cook and clean? What if your husband doesn't know how to?"

you say these and all I hear is
YOUAREWEAKYOUAREWEAKYOUAREWEAKYOUAREWEAKYOUAREWEAK

i keep waiting for you to let me prove myself but you never even give me a chance.
i am not just a rag doll for the world to play house with.

just wait until i show you what i can really do with my hands:

strangle you.

whether the rouge on my lips is lipstick or blood is yet to be decided.

Alyssa Feb 2018

I miss you when I see you

I see you everyday,
I hear you everyday,
I watch you everyday,
But it will never be enough.

I am with you everyday,
I work with you everyday,
I live with you everyday,
But is still isn’t enough.

I see your eyes,
your face,
your hands,
your hair.
Your clothes,
your walk,
your skin,
I desperately want more, but it is never enough.

During the day, you are with me.
Working
At night, you are without me.
Playing.

I hate it.
I want you to myself,
yet I don’t know how.
You call me emotionless
I call you an unobservant
You call me ridiculous
I call you rude

But then you unironically said I’m brilliant.
You said I’m fantastic.
That I’m amazing.
I’m a genius.

You are the first.

You are different.

You were different from the start.
I began to see it when we met and you didn’t hate me.
You are the first.

You are different.

I wanted a friend.
I took you unwillingly on an adventure,
And you loved it.

It healed you.
I knew it would.

I was jealous.
I took you away from your ‘friends’,
and you hated it.

It helped you.
I knew it would.

I wanted help.
I took you away from your job,
And you loved it.

It was your favorite time of the day.
I didn’t know that.

You wrote about us,
I wrote about ash.
You wrote about our work,
I wrote about perfume.

I told you what you wrote was silly.
I loved your writing.
I loved our flat.
I loved our job.

Now it has changed.

Now,
I
Love
You

Alyssa Feb 2018

Boundaries

This, my defined edge
These mountains are my borders
Don't cross nature's mark.

#boundary #wall #edge #mountain #geography

Alyssa Feb 2018

Cyclic

The whirling wind blew,
So she looked to the sky.
There, a stray raven flew
Nobody quite knows why.

The dragon flapped her wings,
However she tried too hard to fly
And dropped some of her things.
Nobody quite knows why.

A butterfly landed on the dragons leg.
So while scratching her thigh,
She laid an egg.
Nobody quite knows why.

The dragon fell, bruising a hip
After all, she’s no longer spry
It hurt her more than her usual trip
Nobody quite knows why.

Even after all this time,
She still waves goodbye
To her dear friend free of any crime
Nobody quite knows why.

So with that bird in the air,
half her things missing,
she gave birth to an heir.

Age holding her down,
Her heart set a flutter,
She lay upon the ground.

I originally wrote this as a bunch of random stanzas all ending in Nobody quite knows why before reordering them and putting them together to make this poem. I really like how this turned out, since this was my first narrative poem.

#dragon #death #life #fate #age

Alyssa Feb 2018

Accept

He grabbed my hand,
And whispered “run”.
I followed throughout the land,
Always having fun.

I’ll never forget his face,
Even as it will change.
He is in love with space,
And his large heart is rather strange.

My best friend was always found in him
But then he was different
Life became quite grim
I didn’t understand what he meant.

Things between us became strained
But then I realized my mistake.
I may have felt pained
But then I accepted her as not a fake.

#accept #change #friend #transgender

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