The Man Who Told Me I Shouldn’t Be Sad

Sarah McMahon
6 min readJan 30, 2020

The other day, I posted the below photo and poem on Facebook and Instagram. I’d like to point out right off the bat, that this poem is decidedly not that sad.

stand up straight, girl⁣

stand tall⁣

don’t close up your heart like that⁣

don’t let that fire burn out⁣

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