" What inspired you to write this? "

The raven locks that drift over mine eyes

Feathery white wisps on ocean skies

The breath I take in

Let out for the next to begin

Blank journal pages begging for my coming

Sweet soft tunes on my speaker humming

Vendettas to mollify

My experiences being so shy

The injustice to so many innocents, them I must bolster

A recent novel plot, emotional rollercoaster

The faces I see, books where I may read dishonesty

Ungratefulness for land that was bloodied for them, such a monstrosity

Macbeth’s witches and his point of no return

Merridew looking at Ralph and choosing to spurn

Digression in class of parenting tips and anecdotes

Lovely look of the loops and curls as I take notes

Another day to live when yesterday could have been my last

Insults at me shan’t scarify my optimism, my felicity I will blast

My petulant behavior with the best intentions

Counselors walking me through my wrongs, insightful interventions

Claps and eulogies after a winning point in debate

All these failures that I move past, for the victories I will wait

Students sacrilege to education

Ignition of my anger, how they disregard our life’s foundation

Illiberal minds mayhaps I can change

All those who mock and see me as strange

Concurrence of good and bad

How the calm can make me sad

Every morning, the teachers I greet with a smile

All these hours pacing, pondering mile after mile

My peers with deleterious friends, if only all of them I could save

The road to the future I am setting to pave

Twenty-six letters, in my pencil they are stored

Words I have adored and abhorred

For all the years of opportunities, so doleful, I had to miss

The question “ What inspired you to write this? “

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