Poems Ring Deeply In The Soul

Six

Problems; written ??? I think Aug. 25th 2014

Why is it nowadays

We have so many problems?

Lies

Debt

Fear

Hate

Distrust

Death.

I was scared for my life when I said

"I am pansexual"

Instead of coming home a week before prom with a boy on my arm

I flinch in fear when my sister is angry

Because she hits me.

The truth from the shootings is so blurry

I couldn't have worse vision if I took off my glasses

Children can't bring up their ideas

Because they are too young.

One by one highschoolers fall

As college debt climbs.

I'm afraid to tell my family I wouldn't mind have two lovers

Because my dad said the term with such bitterness and disgust

I don't know who I am

Because this body is uncomfortable no matter where I sit.

But I know I could never change it.

My mother never told me I could make myself feel good

Or that it was okay to like girls.

I nearly bit through my own thumb

Because I was late.

I can't tell my best friend

I named my crab after him

And that I think she's gorgeous.

When I wear a skirt it's endless lines of

"Don't sit like that"

I want to scream so badly

Help those students off the ground

Demand that I sit how I like

Because any scum who looks up my skirt

Deserves a kick to the face.

People should be comfortable

In their love

In their bodies

In their lives

Not fearing the world because a loud group decided

They're not human

But alas

I cannot

I will one day

But for now

I'm just

This teensy little girl