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Lanai McAuley<\/em><\/h4>\n

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Aren’t I casket pretty?<\/p>\n

Painted with hues of rouge, lavender, and bronze<\/p>\n

Center stage, main act, this is my final curtain call<\/p>\n

Cushioned in this pine box of neglected dreams and never said apologies<\/p>\n

You forget I\u2019m a great Greek tragedy<\/p>\n

Pretty people in their Sundays\u2019 best<\/p>\n

Gather around my overdue eternal rest<\/p>\n

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The choir sings of Jesus and heavenly glory<\/p>\n

I\u2019m all things divine and righteous<\/p>\n

Holy conundrum, undisclosed non-believer<\/p>\n

The pews praise in tongue and shout hallelu<\/p>\n

Wasted youth, \u201cToo young to die\u201d<\/p>\n

But how could they know<\/p>\n

The grim reaper was a childhood friend of mine<\/p>\n

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My father always wore his heart on his sleeve<\/p>\n

A newborn inked among gray hairs for eternity<\/p>\n

The girl in the casket is a stranger to him<\/p>\n

My mother prays for my deliverance to heaven’s gate<\/p>\n

Unknowing that on my way<\/p>\n

I read baby’s first bible<\/p>\n

Cause I never knew my prophets<\/p>\n

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Pilate reads my eulogy with the grief of a mother\u2019s loss<\/p>\n

Her cracking voice swears, \u201cAnd she was loved!\u201d<\/p>\n

The congregation calls me Sparrow<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t see the wings<\/p>\n

An angel’s rite of passage, is this it for me? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m just waiting for the bells to ring<\/p>\n

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Lanai McAuley<\/strong> is a sophomore at Rutgers-New Brunswick. She is planning on studying History with a minor in English or Africana Studies. While writing had been one of her passions growing up, Lanai went through a massive writer\u2019s block while battling the stressful workload of high school. Her creative zeal was re-ignited towards the end of high school due to the encouragement of a beloved teacher and fully relished in her first year of college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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