deadland

April 22, 2018

when i was sixteen i couldn't read past two lines of the waste land

april was cruel and i was the dead land, but from me nothing grew

i wanted lilacs to bloom while they buried me

they nearly had to bury me

i saw them again today and cried

i am alive and the poet was right

lilacs grow from the dead land

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