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 Jan 2019 Rae
Tanzim Ahmed
Untitled
 Jan 2019 Rae
Tanzim Ahmed
Your smile can't hide the darkness you carry.
 Jul 2018 Rae
Lvice
Loyalty
 Jul 2018 Rae
Lvice
I used to write
My secrets in the sand,
Knowing they would never stay
Long enough to be told.

I used to just swim,
pulled my hair up and never
Really tasted the salt that foamed
After the crash.

I've ran in the sand,
Sure, but never have I
Ever let it smooth my
Skin into what it could be.

Before today, I've never
Let the current take me
Under and feel what it's like
To always come back to something.
 Apr 2018 Rae
Alyssa De Marzo
Growing up, my grandmother always tried to hold me back from the girl I thought was my best friend.
Her name was Society.
My grandmother made it very clear that I was not to associate with Society and so that is what I did
for a while.
By the age of 7 I had an impressively large entourage of friends, whose parents also steered clear from Society.
We watched movies, made hot chocolate and talked about our hopes and dreams.
However just because the light burns bright, doesn't mean it's going to burn forever.
By the time I was 11 our coterie had fallen through.
The more we grew, the less we would hear our parents.
11 years young, and completely detached.
All my friends were now strangers.
Society was the only one I had left.
I always desired to be equals with her.
I tried so hard until there wasn't any ME anymore.
I was caught in between fitting in with the world and becoming estranged from myself
Society dug up every last seed that all sane adults plant into their children.
Mum raised me to believe that every inch, every atom and every molecule inside of me was worthy of love.
Society had taught me to pinch and pull at my body, accusing every bump, every scar and every imperfection for being some of the many reasons I was alone.
Society led me to rip every mirror off of the walls of my life.
"You don't wanna see that" She would whisper.
She was wrong until she was right.
For every 1 thing I found to love in the reflection,
Society would find 3 things to hate.
Society had taken the sparkle from my eyes because the other girls couldn't see past the glare.
Society silenced the protest in my gut because there weren't enough people on my side
but as I moved on to better people
I realized she was all a sham
 Mar 2018 Rae
posiontheapple
Rape
 Mar 2018 Rae
posiontheapple
We were all walking and talking
But you pulled me back from the group
You said you needed to talk to me
I can hear the cars driving in the distance
Our friends laughter starts to fade
You push me up against the building
You said you been watching me
I tried to scream
But your hand quickly covered my mouth
You start to violate me
I start to cry but it didn't stop you
All I can think about is my grandma
And what she would think of me
After you were done, you walked away
I can hear the crunch your shoes made on the grovel
And all I can do is cry and cover myself
As you walk away from a body you violated
 Mar 2018 Rae
donia kashkooli
if we would've met at 16 our lives as teenagers would've been worlds different. we'd meet in the parking lot after school and we'd drive for a little, then hotbox in front of the pacific ocean. i'd play you all the stuff that i played on my weekly radio show and i'd ***** to you about how i was done with the world and every single lululemon wearing, frozen mocha drinking girl who thought i was inferior to her because i wasn't conventionally pretty, listened to anti-establishment punk rock of the 1970s and refused to straighten my hair even if my curls wouldn't quit that day.
i didn't know you four years ago. you were the exact opposite of me, and honestly you probably would have avoided me  - you put gel in your hair and you played sports, but you seemed like you might've been angry and sad for no apparent reason too. you were the same as you are now in some ways, you had the 24/7 off-duty model thing, you were smart, you bumped old school tunes, you knew old school sitcoms. i would've 100% been in love with you but i never would have done anything about it. all i wanted was someone that i could tell everything to, but nobody cared. knowing you could have eased the pain of the period of time in my life where i spent all my money on dime bags and twelve dollar packs of cigarettes and stability was the last thing on my mind and all i really wanted to do was dig a grave for myself. you probably would have never talked to me, but we would have been the coolest kids in the parking lot.
and can i tell you like, the cheesiest sounding thing in the world? yeah? okay. i can't wait to run into you on a beach on the north shore of kauai in 50 years. "shawshank redemption" style. i hope we're friends forever.
 Dec 2017 Rae
Ford Prefect
if i talk too much
it because i've spent so long
withering
to a single flame
a forgetful spark
and i am only now beginning
to feel the oxygen
to let the air fuel me
and i cannot stop the avalanche
of words
of thoughts
of lost meanings
from collapsing out of me in a
wild flurry of
sore throats and swollen tongues and
savage cries that for once
aren't for help

if i talk too much
it's because i've got so much
that i never had the chance
to say
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