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Darla Haven Jun 4
He doesn’t know what to write about.
Not many things to be said out loud.

He’s sad, the world’s a whirling storm,
A place that lost its gentle form.

He sat in the bathroom for hours on end,
Scrubbing off the guilt—too much to mend.

Looked himself up and down with a frown,
Wished he could wash those details down.

Cut his already painfully short nails,
Still couldn’t forget the smallest details.

Mindlessly scrolled through Instagram,
But didn’t really give a ****.

He deleted TikTok, Insta, all that noise,
Left with google and Wikipedia—no joys.

So he scrolls through YouTube shorts,
At least it’s not meta or Chinese imports.

Still can’t delete WhatsApp,
Feels like a trap.

But he uses Signal most of the time,
And then tries to make his words rhyme.
I feel like writing about something else than being mad or disappointed or upset about Nawrocki might help me feel better
Darla Haven Jun 2
Nothing changed,
Their world hasn’t been rearranged.

The children still go to school.
One of them is dressed uncool.
Mourning, only wearing black,
There is no way back.

Another kid comes in—
laughs and mutters: "**** it! we never win.”

There is a boy in the hallway,
Crying because he doesn’t get a say.

Karol Tadeusz Nawrocki is now,
THEIR president,
THEIR leader,
THEIR ruler,
THEIR FATE.

They lost.

They heard Magdalena Agnieszka Biejat—
her name sadly couldn’t make it.

Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski?
another face on the losing ballot.

PiS won,
but at what cost?
A corridor of silent tears.
A playground where laughter dies.
A future stolen from poor kids.
i am so dramatic. but like **** Nawrocki. like **** have you seen him? he can’t represent me. he doesn’t. he can’t represent us.
Darla Haven Jun 1
It’s raining.
As they see the exit poll.
The difference too small.

It’s raining.
As they see the late poll.
Is Poland going to fall?

It’s raining.
They look up the last poll.
They won’t sleep tonight.
Nor will they tomorrow.
They won’t breathe.
They won’t… They can’t anymore.
And it’s funny because they used to love rain, but now Nawrocki is their president.
Darla Haven May 31
She cannot vote
She’s just fourteen
Others decide who keeps the country afloat
Her voice unheard, her face unseen

She will turn eighteen soon
No time to snooze
Whether she is dutch or votes in June
How could you ask a teenager to choose?

She is Polish. She is Polish. I am.
You have your marches with OUR flag
But you don’t give a ****—
About us. Just go and brag.

That flag—it’s mine too.

Red and white,
Light.

But it’s the only one

Navy with yellow stars,
It’s ours.
If Nawrocki wins tomorrow, you can start digging my grave. A little bit of context: I don’t have a Polish nationality or speak Polish at home so I always felt like I didn’t belong, but yeah Poland is ours. And so is Europe <33
Darla Haven May 30
I wish I could quit thinking about norms,
There’s a rainbow after all storms.
The ones in our minds too I guess,
I just wish I would think about this less.

Because really, everything is unfair,
So who cares about my short hair?
And of course it’ll grow back,
Yet it forever leaves a crack.

A crack in my heart and my head,
I can’t even believe what I’ve said.
They want the hair to be long,
All I feel is just, that this is wrong.

I want the red not the blue key,
I don’t think that’s hard to see.
So it won’t be cut once again,
But will that be the rainbow or the rain?

'Cause I shall look in the mirror,
That won’t make anything clearer.
And I will feel sad looking there,
My hair will be too long to bear.

I will look at photos of me now,
I’ll probably wonder why and how.
Might say that it was a mistake,
They’ll never see if it’s true or fake.
Spoiler alert!! I did get it cut again. And then I cried, because it looks ugly.
Darla Haven May 30
This is love!
Fits like a glove,
You’ve always been near—
I guess I’m just filled with fear.

This is love!
It’s all of this, you are.
Might not be what I had dreamt of,
But we can just drive away in a fast car.

This is love!
My band on your hand,
Your smile fits me like a glove,
Love is you—my partner, my friend.
This is about one of my best friends; Fast car by Tracy Chapman is a song she showed me and it will forever remind me of her.
Darla Haven May 29
We live in a world of

Dark skies
Rays of sunshine
White lies
Adults drinking red whine

Kids with conceptions
Not being listened to
So many exceptions
Nothing to do

Imperfections
Insecurities
People and connections
Fading to obscurity

Slicing ourselves
Because we are rare
Society compels
Tempting not be there
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