Light of My Life When you guess it’s time to extinct your light, Just think of the following things in your mind: “But I haven’t climbed the Himalayas yet to see her beautiful scenery, ” “But I haven’t found
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To the Black Girl I Once Was by Kamsie Obilo
To the Black Girl I Once Was A poem by Kamsie O. To the Black girl I once was The girl who didn’t love herself Looked in the mirror every time Mildly screaming in horror To the Black girl I
Belonging by Zoe Chambers-Daniel
Belonging I want to be a bird perched on a willow tree With a feeling of ease surrounding me and my family Flying in sync, performing for the large humans to see Not for vanity but to express that we
Far from Freedom by Rosaura Cuevas
Staring at myself in the mirror, I asked, When? When was the last time I laughed, danced, or felt like myself? I feel like a little bird in a gold cage. How did I not notice before? One word, one
If I Know Everyone by Bingwen Chen
A word with the creator (Bingwen Chen, NYU ’26): Why did you decide to submit to OPUSzines? I enjoy the feeling of reading words written by the old me: they always bring me on a time machine back to a