Paperweight Poetry

We are just like the earth, one minute we flood, The next moment our suns choose to shine, Soon when it rains, all we look at is the mud,  And the next instant we swear we are fine.  -anna sluder

dreams come in the night and kiss your eyelids and lashes so that you will never again blink or fail to see all that you could be. -anna sluder

I wrapped myself in starlight  And drank a cup of constellations before bedtime And just as people fall asleep to watching the unknown, the stars,  I fell asleep to watching all of those people below.  -anna sluder 

Darling remember when we were infinite?  How we could carry moments on and on Like feelings you can never forget  And the unshakable words to your favorite song.  -anna sluder 

I see these boys and girls like kings and queens  Strutting through the hallway of the school And I want to laugh at these majesties of only eighteen  For building themselves up into nothing but fools All the others worship them for getting drunk and partying And then sitting home afterwards utterly alone And then back at school they reign again as kings As if wasting your life away deserves a throne But I see them as nothing more than legends who cannot stay  Nothing more than a show performed by clowns No more than ghosts who only feel alive when they hurt others in what they say  As they strut the school halls with their paper crowns  And paper is all they are, only what they've cut out for themselves to wear There is no true power that they hold,  And I know since I braved their show, there is a place for me out there somewhere,  Where I will rise with a crown of gold.  -anna sluder 

Did you hear about the indigo night Who they always thought quite starless? But she wasn't just an absence of light She had stars under her violet dress Who would only show one man her stars For she weren't like the women of the day Who got a little too tipsy at the bar Then gave all of their light away She wanted to be more than the limit of what she could see From her clouded view in only the galaxy of Neptune She knew she could find the one who'd love her stars as they be She just didn't know that he'd be the moon. -anna sluder