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Kyra Finner

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

11 poems·Since November 2017

I'm just a teenage willow tree who wants to grow

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"Less"

November 5, 2017

I do not deserve to be pressured into silence

I do not deserve to be treated less

because of how I dress

I do not deserve to go through this pain

that so many girls 

have felt today

Why must I have to try

so hard

to be something more

than a female

when I am human 

too.

KF

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