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Essa Freedom Mar 2017
Every book I open
Every story I read
Another adventure I start
Another Life I begin

I live with them
And laugh
And run
And cry with them

I just don't belong
Not in the real world
But however unlikely
In literacy I find a place

In the end
The pages ripped my heart
They pull me apart
They ruined my life
And they changed who I am

Yet without them
My life is nothing
I am incomplete

The author who holds the knife
Dangles it over my head
With each character's death
A new tear in my soul

A new life in literacy
A gift not all can receive
Without literacy  
I would have no life at all

Such is the curse of the reader

Do not feel sorry from them
Feel sorry for those those who do not read
For those who live but one life
A life a ignorace at that
Em Apr 2022
I'm grateful for my mind
But most of the time I wish I could think like everyone else
Not having to always feel the need to be more mature
or look at the bright side of things
Everyone tells me I'm "mature for my age"
So I keep exhausting myself
Wishing I could cut the rope to the tug of war competition in my head
The back and forth of wanting to wallow with the moon but knowing that sunshine will wash away the worry
I want to live without being concerned about what my future self will think of me
I want to be a selfish ignorant teen
But I care too much about how I am perceived to others
And I need adult validation to function
BarelyABard Jan 2013
I just raised my fist and stormed across a hell made of anger, guilt, and ignorace that I created for myself.
I was never the same again. I don't even remember who I was before. The ghost of a boy stamping his frustrated feet in the dirt.
I believe I became whatever the universe wanted me to be though.
When you walk through fire, some part of the poison burns off and whatever detriment that remains is charred and visible; able to be conquered like the remnants of a failing army.
Riley Kavanagh Sep 2020
white people do not want to grow up
they do not want to understand the harsh world around them
they do not want to know
about the heartache that they have caused

Blissful Ignorance
is what it is called

is it because people think we are pure?

that the pristine white skin they happen to have
somehow washes out the centuries of anger
hatred
segregation
and discrimination

because I can not begin
to describe the atrocities
that we have committed
since the beginning of time

we have ignored it
hoping it would simply disappear
hoping a whole race
will forget their struggles

stop
stop wishing it away
because it will simply not aide
the matters at hand

white people do not want to grow up

they want to stay in their bubble
the bubble of comfort
the bubble of
Blissful Ignorance

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