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I look up at the night sky
Yellowed by the city lights
And the moon fills my head with thoughts
Like the girl beside me in class
Who also has scars peppering her arm
Or the boys on the blacktop who toss around slurs
Like they are basketballs
Or my parents beating me with a name that is no longer mine
And grieving my death that hadn’t ever happened
Or my voice getting higher by the day
With nothing I can do to stop it
I wanted to grow up
But not like this
I look up at the night sky
With every unpleasantry filling my head
But tonight
I can actually see the stars