It Took All My Energy

 written by Tony Wallace (2001)

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It took all my energy to want you

and the rest of me to go after you

and then one day I knew

that I had you.

I am Sorrow

written by Sindy Cheung (1989)

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Who will listen to my feeling?

Who will listen to my useless land?

After the war, my skin had been damaged,

There are craters in my body.

Although I was sad, sorry, and suffering,

Who will listen to my feeling?

I am sad, sorry, and suffering,

Who will know my feeling?

I am not sad about my harmed body,

I am sorrow because of the people who can't use me rightly.

Who will know my feeling.

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extracted from The End of Your Life Book Club 
by Will Schwalbe

The poem was written when author was 16 years old. She's a Viatnamese, living in a refugee camp in Hong Kong.