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Poems
Sep 2017
2:23 AM
I was reading
When I realized
From this book
We aren't
What we say
We are
We are so much more
Than numbers
Numbers on a scale
On a ruler
On a tape measure
More than numbers
On our clothing
But that's what
Everyone
Defines us by
They say we are percentages
We are only one
In seven billion
Why should anything
Go right
We have something
Every one in five gets
Why should we feel special
They say we are standards
Like clear skinned
Tan
Gorgeous
And brains don't matter
As long as we are
Clear skinned
Tan
And gorgeous
They say we are dollar signs
That those who are poor
Should not even
Glance their way
And those who are rich
Are
Always
Stuck up
And ******
That the brand
That costs less to make
But is mass produced
And more expensive
Is better
Than the cheap stuff we all wear
They say we are the change
This world needs
But they don't mean it
They mean
They want us to try
But they won't let us get near
The power
But that's not what we are
We aren't numbers
We aren't percentages
We aren't standards
We aren't dollar signs
We are stories
Passed down from people
Who knew
What they wanted us to know
Like the time
My grandma accidentally knocked
Her favorite and only doll
Into the hole in her outhouse
Or the time we all sang
As one
In a happy melody
We are memories
From times
And lifetimes
Past
We are stars and planets
Distant yet
Present
Bodies
So elusive
Thereby so intriguing
The only thing
We really want
Is to fly in stardust
And dance in a moonbeam
We are dreams
That maybe won't come true
But will give us the best adventure
When we find out
How to live them out
We are heartbeats
That beat at night
We are bugs
In this garden of life
Because without us
There would be no point
We are flowers
That tickle your nose
On a warm spring day
When you reach down
To smell its fragrance
We are shoulders
To cry on
We are roads
To walk on
We are smiles and laughs
We are childhoods
We are balloons and bubbles
We are winters
We are springs
We are summers
And we are falls
We are the heat
And we are the cold
We are the change
We want to see
In an upside down world
Only we can change
We are people on the corner
Begging for some coins
We are souls
Thirsting for reprieve
We are hearts
Trying to love as much as we can
We are sadness
And we are joy
There are things
We can see
And things we can't
But after everything
Every word
We speak
We are so much more
Than what they tell us
Day after day
We are the world
And this world
Is ours
So take it from someone
Who has been invisible her entire life
Until they berated the silence
Out of her
In words
That changed to sorrows
And hits
That turned
To beauty
Because she can be beautiful
In this
Crazy
Twisted
Yet absolutely stunning
Life
#life
#sad
#latenight
#earlymorning
#musings
#thoughts
#alone
#sadness
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