Posts
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A little feeling
Whenever I see her I get a little feeling inside
My chest feels warm and I fill with pride.
I love that she has confidence in herself.
I love that we can sorta talk to each other.
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Unique
I am unique
I have hearing loss
I feel as if it is harder for me to fit in
I feel as if I am a puzzle piece that can’t fit
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Assumptions
I hate the fact that so many people make assumptions.
About me.
The “fact” that because I have hearing aids means that I am deaf.
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Singled Out
I always feel singled out of the crowd.
I wonder why they chose me.
I wonder why they don’t pick on anyone else when I am around.
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Rumors
Rumors.
They suck.
I had one about me
That I was dating a girl that I was just friends with
But according to middle school boys that means that we are
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Feelings
I find myself both fearful and mad
At the outcome that happened on November 5.
I find myself wanting to curl into a ball and hide from it all for four years.
But I can’t.
Loves
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love poem #1
all the things i do not know about love –
the proper ways to hold someone through the storm, what to say
when a snake has shed its rippling skin and silence with it,
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Ophelia by Millais (1851)
Why does Ophelia look so calm?
Calm in calamity, peaceful in perishing
Why does she look so calm?
She died in a fit, she died in anger
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Invisible
I know I've said before that I wish I was invisible, but this isn't what I meant.
I want to be seen for who I really am, not someone they think they know and judge.
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Things They'll Never Understand
They'll never understand that you don't have to snap
To be heard.
They'll never understand that their astounding rudeness
Cruelty
Hatred
Discriminatory remarks
Hurt actual people
GASP
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Irony
The irony is not lost on me. The day that Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated, is the same day as Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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the pleas of a prisoner
My name is Lucy Danto. I am in the eighth grade at the McCullough Junior High School in Texas. Please, if even for a brief moment, let my voice be heard.