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The Vexation of Youth

January 24, 2019
By clark_hel SILVER, Eastman, Wisconsin
clark_hel SILVER, Eastman, Wisconsin
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Favorite Quote:
"A poem a day keeps the therapist away" - me


I told them I was a little angry,

They called me an angry little girl.

My worries shot down so amply,

And told that I don't quite know the world.

 

And to be honest, I did not.

See, I believed the world was good.

But I only knew what I was taught,

and they taught only what they could.

 

They lit a fire in me,

but did not tend the flame.

I was left to burn so brightly,

and brightly did I blaze.

 

But left here to burn,

without the proper fuel.

So I burned out as they'd wanted

Oh! I can't believe my fool.

 

The rage had left me hollow,

A charred, empty husk.

For all I once believed in,

has simmered down to dust.

 

I am sad among the ashes.

Now my anger is a joke,

Just a laugh for all the masses,

For now I'm nothing more than smoke.


The author's comments:

I wrote this piece after I went through a bit of a crisis in my own activism. I was so angry that T made myself sad. I didn't think that what I did made a difference and that the people who held all the power were just letting me tire myself out before they went about their business. I felt as though I could kick and sream, but nothing would happen, nothing would change. Once I came to theat realization, I had to write out the feeling. 


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