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Bullying

March 14, 2018
By Via.Kardadi BRONZE, Plainfield, Illinois
Via.Kardadi BRONZE, Plainfield, Illinois
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She didn’t belong here 

"Don’t you do it" 

Words too strong 

She wasn’t used to this

The warning was a bark

Dangerous, dreadful, disregarding the commotion inside

"Listen to me"

The warning strives in the silence

She was hungry for friends

A thousand thoughts that she was afraid of

Terrified that the warning would settle into silence

One of the dark places were glowing

Feeling trapped like a car beneath a tree The warning

Frantic

She went into a state of flight

Her thoughts change and change again

Learning how to regret accidents

Disappointments can't be changed 

Then

The sun comes out making an explosion

She's dazzled by a cluster of yellow chrysanthemums

She's driven back to the house 

that made her who she is

She can easily see the yellow in the sun

Beautiful but dangerous the sunset trapped her 

The yellow light could speak volumes 

nothing could do it justice

The sun was like dew drops 

Like the smell of rain

The sun was an ice storm

The sun made your hundreds of little faults and foibles

count for nothing 

Making every intoxicating, intolerable, inconceivable, inhuman word Forgivable

Because of the yellow chrysanthemums


The author's comments:

This is a found poem based off of Travels with Charley by Steinbeck and The Weather of New England by Twain. This poem is based off of the way that I found the "yellow" in my life when I was bullied.


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