When I Run Out of the Classroom
Everyone says they "get it."
That makes no sense.
I don't "get it."
It hurts. No one should understand that.
I don't understand why it's my curse.
I committed no sin against the universe,
Just my neighbors, who love me still.
A small baby screaming in her mother's arms,
Kissed by pain that follows her yet,
And grows shadowed by ghosts.