social commentary
There's a rich history of poetry serving as social commentary, intended to inspire calls to action.
smoke screen
I recently learned that you were high that morning when we climbed the hill to watch the sunrise over the town we are both trying to leave. I tell myself that it wasn’t personal but I struggle to separate the fact that in order to spend time with me you needed to be feeling something else, something otherworldly, because despite the fact that you told me I was made of the stars you couldn’t bear to be alone with my constellations lest you forget that you shouldn’t love them, because I know you did. But you preferred to blur the lines of whatever this was in the same way you blurred your focus that morning.
By Harriet Rogers3 years ago in Poets
