Ritual Girl

On blast

Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash

I see you — red pencil circle around this title/
no shame left emblazoned on a notebook of blues/
dreamy-eyed imprints of time/vast numbers
of thumb shots /their smudged residue collected
and left inside —

I see them
the young girl without hope
the boy being bullied
and
the bully too scared to go…