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sistertuesday submitted a contest entry to
Write a letter or poem to your younger self sharing what you love most about him/her 10 months, 4 weeks ago“Robert Mapplethorpe”
Olive Bealove photos of
black bodies
dancing across screens
taken with stolen aperturesit’s a silly game me and the plane
play
back n forth
my skin not yet shiny enough
not yet translucent
theirs blasting with luminositywanna kiss the boy in that
picture
tell him he’s okay
don’t need to be no shiny dancer
but then again
who’s gonna kiss the little girl in
me
and tell her she’s alright
i’m scared they will drown her
in tales of african hymnals
from the mouth of an ivory individual
or maybe of lessons learned
through the guise of a
forgetful father or
intentional deceiver
either way lessons
engraved in the pretty
skull all the wayVoting is closed
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Olive, your writing is so creative. The pressure that you had put on yourself at such a young age must have been so difficult to cope with. I am so proud of you for working through that and understanding that none of it was truly your fault. Realizing this and overcoming it has made you a stronger person!! ♥
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