Poems from MEH_GN
I have a love affair with words and the connections they allow us to make. Education is one of the most powerful forces in the world. Love is crucial. I write about my experiences with poverty, social ostracism, self worth, and identity. Thank you
Banish me from this earth,
For it is wrong for me to wish,
For anything beyond this ornamental existence.
I am a woman, and meaningless,...
It hangs over my mind
Like a patch of fog blowing numbly over
A scalp full of grass.
And it clings, clings, clings
And permeates
Into the...
The lights on the ceiling blurred my vision
As I lay on my back,
Humming low.
The world is cruel to
The young who
Have no place to go.
And...
I don't want to live like this anymore.
Checking a mirror
Every five seconds
Though I don't hate the face inside it
Any less.
I don't want...
Sixteen years, and a road.
Unfurling before me, looping, undulating.
Miles to sail on a brisk Irish sea,
Miles to sail, cheeks to pale,
He...