"Saving The Last Dance"

I entered a room last night full of everyone I’d known.

It seemed to be some sort of gathering - a ceremony.

Perhaps a funeral at first thought.

One thing was off though -

One minor detail was misplaced -

Everyone was smiling.

Laughing.

Enjoying themselves within each others’ company.

I noticed my mother laughing -

laughing so terribly with my aunts.

All of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and many peers as well,

All gathered together in this one large hall.

Wearing black…

I walked in and nearly all heads had turned.

Smiling,

Laughing,

Awaiting my arrival.

Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup
Angry as hell
But I can’t
Cry and let it out cause I
Don’t want anyone to realize that
Even though I may seem strong outside I really am
Frightened and scared to know that I may never
Get to truly be
Happy cause my real feelings are stored on the Inside. So I laugh it off as if It’s a
Joke and I’m only just
Kidding around. I really need to stop this because I’m
Letting it contro
My everyday life. I need to go back to feeling
Normal and try to
Overcome this pain that’s forever
Promising to not let me get up. I want to go back to my
Quintessence where life was understood and rarely
Reviewed because I always knew what
Steps that I was going to
Take next. And I always
 Understood what my
Very purpose
Was here in this world. But now I’m feeling like a
Xenophobe. Like I hate all people but myself when what I’m really
Yearning for is someone to
Zap me back to reality.
-Natasha Harris

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