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posted February 23, 2017 at 8:46pm UTC tagged with
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"I babysat this six year old, and I was wearing shorts today..
and my scars were showing, I guess. He poked them and he said, "I know how those got there." I replied, "How?" He looked at me with a straight face and he said, 'I've seen them before. My big sister had them, and she said mean people put them on your body when they weren't nice to you, because when people are mean to you, you end up being mean to yourself. My big sister went away. I don't know where she went. Mommy said she's on a happy vacation somewhere, because she was too sad here. I miss her. Don't go on a vacation, please.'"
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a lot of my life
has been realizing that i would
cross oceans
for people who wouldn't
jump puddles for me
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"Sometimes, I'm the mess.
Sometimes, I'm the broom.
On the hardest days,
I have to be both."
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You tried to become smaller
didn’t you?
You curled into yourself,
twisting and bending your spine,
wanting to fit into a box so small,
it would fit in your hand.
You tried to speak softer,
didn’t you?
There was no more room in your box,
so you spoke smaller words,
and shorter sentences.
Keeping your thoughts in
a bottle nestled between
your ribs.
You tried to follow the lines
on your palm,
like the vikings followed
the constellations―
searching for something―
anything―
other than yourself.
But what they failed to teach you,
between your abc’s and 123’s
is that you are not a box―
you are a warrior,
and your skin
is your armor.
The lines on your palm
are not a maps;
you are not meant to
fit inside a box;
your words are meant to
be heard as you scream
from the rooftops,
breathing in gulps
of fresh air;
and the only thing you’re
meant to find is
yourself.
(DS)
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