Day of Silence

Remembered how I was going to write about my Day of Silence when I read "This Day".

I did it
Last year
I did it
This year

Standing up
For other
People's rights

I go to
Guidance
I grab my
Button

Pin it on

I get
A little
Sheet

In memorium
Of the 15 year old
That was shot

Because he was gay

I walk around school
Smack my friends' arms
In the hallways
Just like always
But this day isn't normal

I feel powerful
Like I'm making
A diference

My first class
I show him the sheet
He looks me
Up and down
Like he's wondering
If I'm lesbian
As if straight people
Can't stand up for
Gays and lesbians

He disgusts me

I head to Chorus
Show GD the sheet
She doesn't care

She grew up during
The 70's
She's cool with
Everything

I don't sing
I "audiate"
The bell rings

I head to class

Comp Apps is no
Different
She's cool too
And she knows me
She's known me since

Forever

The bell rings
To English with me

I see the Eagle
I'd emailed him
But I can't talk

We have a conversation
Anyway
The power of silence

And then the bell rings
English-time

She gets the sheet too
Because I seem like
The only one
Who answers her questions

But I get something
I didn't expect
She's eyeing me
Just like the first one

I didn't think she would
But I wonder if she's
Thinking something else

Just makes me wonder

Class was boring
'Cause I can't speak
The quiet is irritating

I feel like if I could just
Say one thing
Someone else would get an idea

It's not that I'm
The ONLY one to talk
But there's only
Two-ish other people
That ever say anything

And one of them isn't there

Back to the Chorus room
Never do anything in
AP Theory

I feel like
My silence should
Echo
Through the halls

Does it?