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Dr. Maya Angelou said that there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of yourself.
As a reading and writing teacher, I believe in teaching stories.
I believe in teaching students to share them.
I believe in teaching them to speak.
I believe it is valuable for them to have the chance to see my authentic voice as a writer in the real world presented in these posts. That is, after all, the purpose of writing—to share it with an audience. To speak. To tell a story like only you can.
This is what it looks like when MnikesaSpeaks.
(Photo by: Rachel Liu-Ballard)
she is on autopilot
Misplacing
her phone
her words.
it's hard to write a poem when
all the things are shifting
straight up lifting
you up up up
away.
i write lines
to set things straight
to make the page feel heavy
with remnants of where i've been
so when the disease gets its final win
and in the days leading up to then
i am surrounded
by something
grounded.
