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Indigo League Challenge, Cerulean Gym trainer 3 - 8-20 line poem
Mega Prompts Challenge, writing prompts 36 - 8-20 lines poem


Medal Weights

The medals hang around their necks.
Heavy medals that don't seem to speak
at all to the triumph and despair
they represent…

They don't tell of their desperate tale.
They don't tell of the rubble they've buried
or the tears they've shed,
or the words they've told
or the tears their hearts now sprout
because they've had to dig too deep too quick
and their nails have bits of blood underneath.

But the medals are shiny and gold
and tell nothing.