Why I Cannot Get Out Of Bed

by Marina Powell

First Place Poetry

Sunshine climbs into my eyes Can’t ever reach into my mind I like it here all sad and warm The minor keys just feel like home

Call my friends and say I’m sick

You can’t explain a thing like this Better days left me alone The devils care but angels don’t

They only ever like me fake Charisma stapled to my face And when they laugh I cannot hear Too many people all too near

Every time that I succeed It’s just another death for me I can’t pretend they’ll try to stay I never loved me anyway

I don’t know why I’m built like this I can’t resist I can’t commit Hide and seek with normalcy Look at me--don’t look at me

And at last my heart I wrote All these truths I finally spoke But all of them have heard and read Still can’t recall a thing I said

And this is why Here in the end I just cannot Get out of Bed.

Morning Dew by Brianna Schenk

by Harley Steger