Poem: RE:
Poem: 4:05 to 5:04
Poem: Memory
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Slam Poem: 13 Steps to Successfully Kidnap Someone
Group Poem: Melting Into Beauty
Screenplay: The Junebugs' Night Out
RE:
I hope everyone had a pleasant weekend.
I imagine your last two days to be
That one instagram story about a concert you saw,
Or your latest facebook post of gardening on a Sunday afternoon,
Or perhaps even the photo you attached to your reply last week
Depicting your grandson’s sixth birthday,
With his youthful optimistic eyes
And joyful grin covered in cake.
Through this one image you’ve chosen
I can almost smell the fruit punch,
Feel the cheerfulness in every corner of the room,
And hear his relentless laughter
That can only suggest he does not know of the unrest that exists in this place
And that can only suggest he has never seen the hate
You portray to those, whose lives you cannot relate to
Does he know the words you use
When your back is turned to him?
I do not understand how you allow him to look up to someone
Who looks down on others.
But he still smiles when he looks at you,
And he still smiles for your camera.
I hope this found you well
Or maybe you found it to be rather distasteful,
But the future may not be the thoughts on a glowing white page
Unless we begin to recognize the struggles of those masked by an icon,
The struggles you refuse to admit grow from your own hate,
And release our dispositions of our differences.
I hope this found you well
Or else we’ll just have to try again next week.
4:05 TO 5:04
How long does it take to change
Himself
A person
A life
How long does it take to heal
My soul
This trust
A bullet wound
How long does it take to end
Maybe never
A lifetime
59 minutes
How am I to know if the bullet
Was for him
Or me
MEMORY
I wanted to love the memory,
But you left me with nothing
But scars half healed and
Reopened with every
Hope half built by these counterfeit
Memories I made without you to
Repair a mind you splintered
And remold a dream you split.