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Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade
5th Grade
It goes on...
Each year a new picture
Different clothes,
Different hair,
Different backpack,
Thinner face,
Thicker legs,
Longer body,
Same me.
Thousands of moments,
Caught in these little frames
With the word 'Smile'
My first steps
My first play
My first family vacation
But then it was everyday,
Every hour
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What about those 3 months there were none?
Or the other month I hid away?
Did they not exist?
Or were they all the more real?
Because no one called on me with the word 'smile'
Every once in a while one *click* slips in,
I couldn't bring myself to form the word,
The thing we're taught from our first steps,
Until we're walking out the door,
'Smile'
You see it,
My lips tight
While I fight myself and the world,
Just to push them upwards,
So that no one knows what happened in those absent months,
The days that gravity was just too heavy.
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'Smile'
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My Heart's Prison
PoetryThis is a collection of poems from a harder time in my life. They are not exactly joyful and have many subjects that people try not to broach frequently. These are very personal, but I hope that other people out there can relate. Thank you for readi...
