Michelle Dragonfly Poems

I hear the jokes they make.
All their jokes about things
That don't deserve joking.
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If I'm not who I am,
I'm not me.

Don't you love me?
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By a twisted turn of fate,
You become what you hate.
And by then it's too late.
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Where do I start?
With the victims?
The fighters?
The bruised?
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She's the sky -
Beautiful,
Limitless,
Yet so far away from me.
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What did I do wrong?
Did I hurt you somehow?
Did I say the wrong thing?
Wear the wrong clothes?
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An innocent crime, really.
Not even considered a crime by most.
But it happens more often than any can count.
As I speak, I've been abandoned
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They told me to be fair.
They told me life wasn't fair.
I think, if life isn't fair, why should I be fair?
But what is fairness, really?
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The people rise
They don't, they can't,
Continue to obey
The tyrants who reign.
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"Forgive and forget."
"They didn't know
What they were doing."
"Just brush it off! "
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