How do I explain myself to someone I’ve never met?
I could describe my physical appearance -
hair and eyes the color of mud, skin yellow-brown golden.
But I barely know what I look like, and my body is only a shell.
...
“Congratulations,” they said,
not realizing that your grades
and your GPA
and your class rank
won’t protect you from lying awake in the middle of the night
knowing he was right;
no one will notice if you...
And did you hope you could sing it away,
that lonely, aching feeling?
The voice in the back of your brain
whispering that no one loves you
and you’re better off dead?
Did you hope to drown out that voice with your own,
...
Walking the track,
on the sultry sun that does not come
The Breeze interrupted, feet on repeat
Comes back to me
like a sock on the sneaker
like a blush on the shirt--
O Lord, the Devil follows...
and becom...
The world would still turn without you.
Is that not an awful truth to accept?
And yet I’ve walked through my whole life a ghost, or so it seems, no footprints,
not a trace.
Nobody was
here
and they’ll lau...
