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Flight

The noise is deafening.
My heart pounding in my chest,
Louder than the sound of the plane’s engines.
Excitement, anxiety, longing is excruciating.
People all around me: so close, yet so far.
A sound came and added the excruciating wait
Announcing, “We will shortly depart. Fasten in your seat.”
This flight is not just my freedom flight.
This flight has taken me home.

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Embracing My Future

The secure embrace holds me in place
Keep me steady, slows my pace
Helps me see the light at the end of a dark tunnel
The storms have finally ceased, no longer a deep funnel

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My Beloved

By MH They ask me what’s wrong with your beloved? She looks sad, heartbroken, and in despair Where is her smile you often praise? I answered them my beloved is…

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Incarceration

By DJ Could have, would have, should have been on the streets, on my feet Looking out my cell window like damn, I’m so far from a street Staring at…

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On The Same Page Group Poem: My Home

We had an amazing On the Same Page session last week with the Georgetown University First-Year Orientation to Community Involvement (FOCI) program, which introduces incoming Georgetown students to social justice…

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