Ladders
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When You Walk under ladders
By: Austina Xu
When the pale shadowed isosceles
Casts itself onto me
When my toenails carve C’s into
My rubber soles no longer in balance
When the metal winces and flinches
A teetering pendulum
When the air beneath the ellipse
Feels tighter and colder with every inhale
When the bars of black make hashes
On my face like prison bars
When I dare look up
(I don’t.)
Light is my umbrella once again
And no rain has even fallen
Step Up
By: Luce Cada
it’s time to
step up
time to step into the sun
time to step out of the dark
and rebuild a world
where no one is left alone.
it’s time to
make up
time to make our mark
time to make it better
not worse, not a place
where people are oppressed.
it’s time to
rise up
time to rise to the top
time to rise to the moon
climb ladders, climb stairs, climb mountains
to where we want to be.
it’s time to
change up
time to change for the better
time to change what we thought
was right, because time
changes too — the world changes.
it’s time to
look up
time to look to the future
time to look forward to tomorrow
because you never know what’s
next, it’s our world to live in.