Ear pressed against the wall
My body shocked and stalled
That one chilling word
I have just heard
Filled me with such dread
And silence after It was said
Chair scraped the floor
At my heart, fear tor
They knew I had listened
Salty tears slowly glistened
Freed from a frozen spell
Run, a voice in me would tell
She reached out and called my name
But also said It all the same
It rang inside my head
As I dashed past the gate
Sound stony and forced
The word was Divorce
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Love and Other Teenage Dramas
PoetryThis book is filled with a collection of poems I wrote based on my life as a teenager. All range and varieties of poems are to show that there are so may things, feelings, and situations in high school. It is sometime a chaos of mixed, jumbled mess...
