Messy Notebooks
to make the time pass by, you would
draw these comicstrips of stick figures
you illustrated them next
the skateboard store stickers
you wrote about how you wished
to be elsewhere in that moment,
there’s many pages that sound
like quotes from a famous poet
as you scribble in the lines of your school
notebooks, I hope that you remember me
you haven’t said a word today, and I know that
you’d like to, but instead you sat there stoically
one page is printed, the other is in cursive
the way one writes says a lot about a person
if you take a look, I have
many messy notebooks
I draw lots of flowers and
write even more nonsense
I don’t leave out any empty
space for a table of contents
there are some pages that I’ll show to you,
the others I keep hidden under my mattress
they display my raw emotions, those
notebooks I use as a writing canvas
- Leah Rae