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let the light fall
Let the light fall,¹Fall on fallen faces,Hidden in the shadow of scorn and scars,Pricked and prodded,²Scorched and singed.What is the world I’ve woken up to?Where is Eden on this side of Heaven?³Where the clouds of fluff hold rain and respite?Not snoke and dust.Where they float away with time,Not frozen in place in aPerpetual taste of…
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the torchbearers and me
The lullaby I sing to my child is one of apologies. She does not yet know what for, But when I leave, She will understand I am the one to blame. As much as my parents And their own. Adults only get more set In their ways, Becoming more rigid, Yet unknowingly fragile with time.…
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Time
I’ve spent my entire life trying to make time stop. I’ve got a terrible memory, and to cope I try to record every detail of my life. This was how I got into writing. In elementary school, I attempted to keep diaries so I wouldn’t forget what happened each day, no matter how mundane the…
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Reimagine. Recreate. Restore. (Final Version)
Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Have you ever seen time fly? Watch it slip through your fingers like a cloud passing by… Too slow to notice it leaving, Too fast to make it stop. All we’ve known is to destroy like it’s breathing. The pitter patter of raindrops Match the sounds of clocks Counting down. Tick.…
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On Climate Denial (V2 Climate Speaks)
Denial is the first stage of grief, but what are you grieving?Maybe the fact that our clean air is leaving,Our lungs constantly receiving the grey,Ourselves slowly receding into the black. Our blue waters we pretended to love,Suffocated with plastic we disposed of.Red turns the dove who flies awayWith no turning back. Back into time when…
JORDAN SANCHEZ 