I want to be viewed as strong from what I’ve overcome
I want people to realize I’ve persisted
I don’t want your sympathy
I don’t want to be viewed as a broken person
I am strong
I am not a tragedy.

If you didn’t do it
Why do you feel the need to tell everyone you didn’t
Why did you repeatedly tell me your age
Why don’t I remember anything
Why was there blood
Why did you tell everyone we got together
Why did you do this
Why did you break me

The cost of TRUTH
may at times burden
our mental energy and our wallets,
especially when we are delivered
so many cheap, comfortable lies.
TRUTH, however, is the tonic
that heals and fortifies our minds
against the constant flood of toxic oil
that pours from the gullets
of poseurs and profiteers.

The few who summon the courage
to embrace TRUTH are transformed
into angels of light. They rise above
the sewage of violence and hatred
of so many polluted minds,
the diseased souls condemned
to whither in misery.

I refuse to stay in one place too long
I want to experience the sun on my skin
I need to explore what the world has
The thought of being away from here
Is too appealing to resist

Don’t tell me
That my mind
Is easy to wander into
Don’t tell me
My body
Is all you are wanting
Don’t tell me
My soul isn’t worth learning

It was like a blanket
Pulling me under over and over again
No matter what I did, if I escaped
It always came back
Telling me I was never enough
Saying everything bad was because of me
As I would cry and cry
I just wished I would die