Hair in a low bun, 

dressy shirt on, 

new backpack on my shoulders. 

The girl from yesterday is gone. 

The girl from yesterday cried in public. 

The girl from yesterday let the bullies get away. 

The girl from yesterday let her depression 

catch up with her. 

But then tomorrow came. 

Today I laced up my white converse 

and put in my earbuds 

as I made my trek over ...

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People have started to notice. 

I look sad. Depressed, even. 

Which prompts them to ask the dreaded question: 

“Are you okay?” 

I always reply with: 

“Yeah.” 

Or “I’m okay.” 

Or “I’m fine.” 

But those are lies. 

I am not okay. I am not fine. 

I need help. And I need it now. 

I can’t get it though.

They say to talk to the guidance counselors. 

Lets be serious....

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The alarm bells screamed in my head. 

A number 1 showed up to tell me

that I had a message from someone. 

My friend had just sent me a screenshot of the chat 

he’d had with our other friend. 

My heart froze. 

And then started smashing. 

I’d just read her post about how 

she wanted to end it. 

She was going through some of the 

same things I am. 

But unlike me, she ...

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They tell me it’s good to be different. 

Embrace your differences! 

No one will bully you for it.

No one will shun you. 

Thats what they told me. 

And then I realized the truth. 

They lied to me (as usual) 

about it. 

Because the world is a dark, cruel place.

And to survive you have to be cruel. 

To make it,

you have to fit in. 

To fit in, 

you have to be fak...

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While I walk through the 

open hallways of my school, 

I am trapped. 

Yes, school feels like a cage 

to most, 

but for me it is different. 

I am caged with the ‘popular’ kids, 

the bullies, 

the ones who throw things at me in the lunchroom

and talk behind my back. 

They too say school is a cage. 

But it’s different for me. 

While they can speak, 

i am forced ...

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They tell me to be happy. 

They tell me that ‘no one sits alone’ 

that there’s ‘no bullying at this school!’

but I can tell you firsthand that that’s not true. 

Not one bit. 

At night, 

I cry. 

I cry myself a river, as they say

because I cannot cry any other time. 

They will just tell me that I’m sad

or to cheer up

or the awful ‘what’s wrong?’

It just won’t do. 

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As I walk down the sidewalk, 

I wonder how many people 

are as honest as they say. 

They tell us to tell the truth. 

That we won’t be punished for it. 

That it’s always right to tell the truth. 

But do they tell the truth? 

I can’t help but wonder 

if they are hypocrites. 

Because no one can tell the truth all the time. 

Even the most honest person 

has told a litt...

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Fallible,

what a word! 

No one has a clue what it means

unless they look it up. 

You see, 

this word 

is a wondrous word 

for it most nearly means ‘imperfect.’

For example: 

humans are fallible. 

Its a true statement. 

We are not perfect, 

nor will ever be. 

But we can try to be 

the best person we can 

to improve the lives of others.

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There’s a window. 

The sun always shines through it. 

On rainy days, there is always a light. 

The sun shines through it whatever the weather.

When the curtains close, the light is gone. 

But the curtain never closes. 

Until one day some unsuspecting guy

closes it for his girlfriend. 

The light is extinguished. 

And so is the light in a little girl’s life. 

Be careful...

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Many miles I have traveled.

The years go by. 

As do the miles. 

Whether it be moving

or soccer

or as simple as going to the grocery store. 

They fly past me, 

waving as they go by. 

I’ve made so many memories,

both good and bad. 

I’ve hated how fast the miles zoom past me. 

I’ve loved it how I’ve already traveled so many 

while so young. 

It all depends on th...

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They tell us that the little things don’t matter.

That words can’t hurt us. 

That we need to let go. 

But what if the little things matter?

What if they play huge parts in our lives? 

Because they do. 

The little things make up vast portions of our lives. 

Maybe that’s why some of us don’t let them go.

Maybe that’s why we won’t let them go, 

no matter how hard we try. 

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Help me.

The darkness is closing in,

sucking all the light out.

Wiping out my hopes,

my dreams,

and replacing them with sorrow and sadness.

The darkness is suffocating.

It’s choking me with tears

and regrets and apologies.

It’s tormenting me with the things I did wrong

or I thought I did wrong.

Save me.

I want someone to take my hand.

Give me a flashligh...

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A girl is trapped on a lake

that has been frozen over.

The ice is thin, 

and shatters easily. 

The ice all around her is broken into pieces 

and cracked so much that it was hard to find

the way they fit together. 

The girl balances precariously 

on a small piece of unbroken ice. 

But if the piece breaks,

she either dies by her own hand 

or falls into to abyss of in...

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Hope has been lost.

It has disappeared from life as I know it. 

The sad songs you hear on the radio make me cry. 

I have given up on trying to beat back the demons that live inside. 

I have tried in vain to hold onto the hope, 

to tell myself that it is all

going to go uphill from here. 

But it never does. 

I tried to hide it at first, 

but I realized that I needed help....

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The clock strikes midnight, 

but I don’t see it.

I am too busy inside of my own world to care. 

The clock takes me all the way to around two in the morning. 

But i still do not care. 

The connections to the real world are 

just too hard to put down. 

I feel filled, 

Yet still empty. 

I feel joy, 

but hollow sadness at the same time. 

I am reflecting on the things I...

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The last drops of the sweet tea

in the bottom of the glass 

seem to have a message. 

Telling me to go refill it, most likely. 

But it also shows me a work of art. 

The dregs of the glass are hidden under the ice, 

much like how our true selves are hidden under 

those people we pretend to be. 

Every day a new lie

to tell them. 

Every day a new lie told 

to you. 

...

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We all hide scars 

underneath the tough skin we have formed. 

We all have flaws, 

but we choose not to tell. 

To wait for them to reveal themselves. 

We all have hopes and dreams, 

but we say they’re stupid and that 

we’re never going to achieve them. 

This is the common person. 

And their way of thinking. 

We are all guilty of it.

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A tree. 

Flowers.

The clouds. 

A bench. 

Soft, green grass. 

A far off castle is visible from the top of the tree. 

A girl sits cross-legged, 

in deep meditation. 

She feels the world turning upside down. 

And then silence. 

She slowly opens her eyes. 

My meditation garden,

she thinks. 

She gets up and goes to look through the viewports into her mind. 

Tha...

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As she mills about the streets,

Millicent the cat watches lives unfold.

Joy fills a boy’s face as he receives a note from a girl.

A girl wilts at the sight of a boy talking with another girl.

She watches as lives are created,

a girl begins her journey into the world of a writer,

and destroyed,

a boy commits suicide because of the pains of life.

She knows everyone in town,

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if I had a star in the sky for everything I’ve done wrong,

the sky would be filled with them.

I’ve messed so many things up,

killed too many opportunities,

but hey, 

we’re all fallen stars. 

We fall for a reason.

I’m still not sure what mine is, 

but it has something to do with writing.

I want all you other fallen stars to know,

we are all amazing the way we are.

I...

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As I stand on the balcony,

i stare at the world

or at least the tiny part of it that I can see.

The hotel is grand,

a truely magnificent display

and I feel small just in the lobby.

I feel out of place amid the happy tourists

ready to have fun for the rest of the day 

and tomorrow.

I wish I could say the same,

but this is a one-night stop

at the hotel of my dreams.

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Staring at the dregs of her glass,

wondering whether the world will change

like the little girl said.

The woman thinks about what she said.

The girl has proven to be a knowledgeable 

person, wiser than most of the people her age and 

above. 

But what will it take?

The woman is a lowly photographer

for the local paper.

She only took the photos at this meeting. 

But ...

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Capture the moment 

in a single photograph.

Keep the memory 

of a loved one 

in a framed picture on your nightstand.

Take a beautiful picture 

of scenery or people.

Freeze the world and time

for just one second.

A fleeting moment 

of stolen elegance 

and beauty.

Take a photograph.

It lasts longer.

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Jeans in the right drawer.

Shorts in the left one.

Soni was unpacking her life for the seventh time

in sixteen years.

It was close to midnight,

but she wanted to get it done now

or else she’d never finish.

Her eyes drooped and 

she fought the tiredness. 

But it won and she was soon 

passed out on the mattress on the floor that

served as her bed.

She was soon dre...

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Tell me what you think of my words,

my poems,

the stories I create.

Tell me what you think of my wit,

my worlds I make,

the way I write.

Tell me what you think I do well,

could do better,

give me another outlook on my writing.

Tell me what you think because

your opinions matter.

They help me realize how well I write,

what I do well, 

what I did or wrote wrong...

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I have realized my wrongs and 

am now trying to right them. 

My head was foggy when I wrote that the future was female. 

It’s actually going to be a joint effort,

both male and female and 

everyone in between.

I have seen the universe from a different angle,

and I can see my mistakes better.

Some I still cannot solve,

I have no idea what to do and what I did.

But thos...

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In, out.

In, out.

I calmed my breathing.

I righted my head.

I pieced together my thoughts and read.

But I couldn’t focus.

I had the urge to write. 

About what?

I had no idea.

I have the night to myself.

So I thought about my worst-case scenarios.

And the events that had happened in the past few days.

Discrimination.

Racism. 

Sexism.

ARGH!!

I wanted t...

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We are strong.

We are smart.

We are brave.

We are hope.

We are bold.

We are dedicated. 

We aren’t appreciated for who we are.

We can do so much more than they limit us to.

We can prove everyone wrong.

We are mighty warriors.

Women can do anything men can. 

We can write songs and poems and books

and make changes to history for the better.

We can love things th...

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I need help.

seriously. 

The teacher said to meditate.

focus on one thing.

close your eyes if you want.

i sat like she did.

cross-legged,

hands on ankles,

back straight, 

and calm.

I pictured her. 

Her face.

Her eyes.

Her smile.

After, I sighed and felt depressed.

I always feel depressed.

She helps.

But when I realize she’s imaginary,

I wilt li...

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I will remember

my faults and my flaws

my wrongs and my failures.

I will remember 

the people who stood by me

the ones who didn’t leave.

i will remember

how they hurt me

how they knocked me down.

i will remember 

the sorrow that haunts me

the one that follows me everywhere.

But most of all,

 I remember her.

the way she used her sarcasm and wit like I do.

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When I fall, I fall hard.

when I cry, I cry in secret.

i hide so much from everyone.

i lie to so many people.

I pretend that I’m not hurt or damaged, but I am.

and even I know that.

i live in worlds I design to escape the torture of reality.

i take up sanctuary in the world of fandom.

i have very few friends. 

Real and temporary.

i don’t trust anyone, yet I’m too trus...

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As I type, I cry.

I cry a river of tears, 

enough to drown the whole world in. 

I thought I had cried enough.

I thought that they’d already killed all of my favorite characters

I thought everyone had already left.

The sky is stormy and you cannot see the stars.

Just like me. 

My stars have been hidden by the dark cloud of

depression and death. 

Even in giant crowds of...

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The glistening strands of the pearly web

glitter in the sunrise.

The gentle breeze makes it sway from side to side,

just like the leaves on the tree.

If you rip the web,

you rip long hours of hard work. 

I guess I can relate to this.

But it doesn’t stop me from accidentally destroying 

them anyway. 

The lies they told spun me a web.

One that shines in the sunlight.

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The lies that they tell you make so much sense.

You have no choice but to believe them.

They tell you what seems like the truth,

A pretty twisted version of it.

We lie all the time.

Everyone has.

No one is safe from the world.

The lies haunt you day and night.

You wonder whether it's right.

They don't care for anything but themselves,

and the lies take advantage of th...

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The water is up over her head.

No sound can get through the barrier of liquid.

Cienna finds herself with a choice.

Stay here in her underwater paradise,

or go back to the torture of life above.

No, i cannot. Never again.

No more of the pain the sunny days and happy people bring.

None of the agony the families bring about when they look at her with pity.

So sad, they say, th...

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Lem runs through the jungle,

cold and scared. 

The snake and the tiger come near.

The snake is huge,

a threatening figure.

As is the ferocious tiger. 

Lem is frozen

as they come near. 

Frozen in place by his very fear. 

Run! Run! his mind screams. 

But he cannot move.

Right as the tiger and snake reach him,

he jolts awake.

The nightmares plague him. 

The d...

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He stands in the rain

soaked to the skin 

wondering where in the world she has been.

A girl sits on the floor,

leaning on a cabinet,

writing a letter to someone she knows probably won't read it.

She's safe inside,

he's out in the rain.

He walks away,

willing to try another day.

She walks out into the storm,

not wanting those inside to see her cry.

She does a lot...

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Bella feels like she's drowning

in a sea of sorrow.

She feels like she's suffocating

in all her pain.

She feels her eardrums 

shattering with yells.

She feels her soul 

turn circles in her body.

Some see the pain 

etched on her face, 

but do they do anything about it?

The answer is no,

she is left to her agony.

She walks the streets in silence

while the wo...

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Think about the times your actions

never made the thing that you intended happen.

Think about your actions

that you did 

that lead to what happened today. 

Think about your future,

the things to come.

Your past 

and the things you did.

See, unlike some,

you have a chance 

to turn your wrongs around.

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If I follow you into the darkness of the night,

can I trust you to tell me it's alright?

If I run away with you and don't look back,

can I count on you to cut me some slack? 

That's what Larissa thinks as she watches Sam sleep,

so peaceful and gentle.

His eyes open a peep.

"Larissa..." he says, eyes full of love.

"Sam, I would do anything for you." she replies,

making up...

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The children are all tucked in,

Mother's said goodnight,

turned out the light,

 and closed the door.

Almost immediately,

three are asleep.

But the oldest lies awake,

mind working away.

She thinks about storms

and horns

and babies born.

Her brow furrows

as she thinks,

whar have we done?

There's too much death,

suffering,

hunger,

war,

depression,

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Life gives you lemons,

you make lemonade.

But where do you get

all the sugar for 

mine?

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Shells are everywhere

on the beach.

Conch shells,

clam shells,

random fragments

of once full, beautiful shells

all scattered on the sand.

I wish they weren't so plentiful.

They keep getting under my feet.

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A little bird floats up,

high into the air.

Going up,

up,

up,

to who knows where.

I watch,

I wait,

to see where it's going.

I hope in my heart 

it knows what it's doing.

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Light

pierces the darkness.

It shines like a star,

like the sun.

I wish it would go away.

It's giving me a headache.

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Pretending what I do

doesn't hurt.

Pretending who I am isn't 

broken.

Pretending that I don't need help

when I need it most.

Pretending like I have everything

I'll ever need.

Pretending that my life's 

not a mess.

Pretending like I have 

a place in society.

Pretending like I 

belong.

Pretending like my life

is good when really,

it's anything but.

...

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Gray, gray,

A gray, blue, day.

It shines in my mind like a star.

It rains and rains all day and night 

Just like how I feel at the moment.

Take a look at the world around you.   

What does it look like? 

School shootings,

Hungry children,

War and fighting,

Day after day

After day after day.

What I see is awful.

I watch in silence.

I read the views of other...

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Follow in the footsteps

of those who lived before.

Follow in the footsteps of your

relatives and family.

Follow in the footsteps of your

best friends.

But what if you choose

not to?

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If you could take 

just one step

backwards,

would you take

it? 

To take back all

the things

you said

and did 

wrong? 

To make up with 

the people you

fought with?

To take the chances you left

behind?

To solve the problems

you didn't fix?

To make your past ideas

a reality?

Would you take that

chance?

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Goggles snapped on,

towel gone,

I dive into

the endless blue.

Bubbles rise

up and

break on

the surface

when I let out

a breath.

Tossing beach balls,

breathless from

laughing.

I twirl around,

soaked from

the water.

A thousand

pool noodle fights,

dodgeball games,

volleyball fails,

and bubbles later,

I emerge from

the pool.

Dre...

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