Story of a Young Girl

A young girl sits in the apartment, walls peeling, empty beer bottles

her heart empty

venom spewing full force as she jumps on the couch and screams

GO F*** OFF! She doesn’t understand why life is so sh**ty but she tries to pray

through tears and screaming and burning the papers

representing a sacred ritual, burning her hate

burning her past, burning the hatred that lingers, squeezing all love out

It’s just another day on the earth

that something like this happens, silent ways people express their pain

She screams in the air – “God you better make my life better than all the sh*t my family went through”

The walls crumble, her computer cracks and somehow she sees a glowing light

this is where she wants to be – flower beds where she can release all care and sleep