alecstanza

[alecstanza]

I wrote in 2017

That I'd turn you into

A fading metaphor

To forget our memories,

I sowed them in troublesome soil

And so would grow diamonds tomorrow.

Spring 22, the cherry trees have blossomed.

          - alec stanza

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[alecstanza]

I bear my scattered heart of glass

wearing an armor of silence

it's not bulletproof

bullies aren't just clumsy

jokes aren't just funny

cracks in the vase

all over where

they're never

sorry

           - alec stanza

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[alecstanza]

heavy this bulletproof jacket, and stiff around the neck, too,

solid, the legs soldier on

the face,

freeze,

but fight never kicks in, instead, adults told the child to forgive offenders, and she blames it on Jesus to this day when she takes a second hit in the face, they called it

forgiveness

and they said it was not the bad children's fault, but someone else's fault — someone's fault at least, yes and someone else must do something, but the bullets kept coming, and so the adults said it was the other parents' fault, bad parenting - bad children, yes, and why aren't the bad parents doing anything, bullets kept coming, so the parents called the other parents petty names, bullets

after lost bullets

now she's

precisely

merciless

- Alec Stanza

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