More pretentious poetry

Jul 20, 2024

To be ❤️‍🩹

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To be here
&
To be seen
&
To be accepted
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To be heard
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To be embraced
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To be celebrated
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To be proud
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To be loved
&
To be me

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To grieve and reclaim
My childhood
As a grown ass adult is

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A privilege
Not a birth right

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If you meet me
At my darkest hour
Would you run away

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If you meet me
At my brightest hour
Would you turn away

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My dream is to do [         ] one day

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But my imagination is both
My superpower and
My greatest impediment

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Sit with
My sadness and tears
My insecurities and flaws
My fear of the past
My anxiety for the future

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Sit with me

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Don’t turn away from
Pain
It keeps you in the
Present

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Listen to it
Be kind to it

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For this moment in time
I feel proud and sure of who I am
Even though I’m unsure how to define it

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But we can’t be defined
We are always becoming
Works in progress

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To say that I grew up
Never wanting
Would be a lie

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I grew up wanting the world

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But to want, and
To fulfill, to express a want
Are different things