Defiance

Life is an infinite body of water, the waves weaving and breaking gracefully. Until a massive current decides to throw us, push us and heave us against the shore.

From the very start we all dipped our feet in.

With our birth there were already certain responsibilities and life choices paved in front of us.

Freezing numbness creeps over me as the endless sea of doubt flows past my ankles.

At such a young age we are exposed to the hatred. At the start of our first years, speeches are bound to happen.

 Knee-deep

Hands claw at me, forcing me deeper into this horribly limited reality.

A cold, dark place where uncharacteristically high expectations must be fulfilled but are never quite reached.

The liquid sits at my waist now, enclosing my body. Its unforgiving hands squeeze and pinch at me until they are satisfied with a new creation.

We are forever condemned to a superior outlook on the physical appearance that is dominant. In the eyes of passing by strangers, I seem incomplete.

Rising over my chest,

There is an overwhelming pressure building up inside my heart, the place that hurts the most.

Towering walls of stone and brick once standing tall now crumble slowly.

The Roman Empire burned away.

Ancient Greece fell

Just as the after effect of a nuclear bomb, our originality and individuality waste away.

Coating over my neck and airways until the only visible part of my seemingly disconnected body are my eyes.

Glimpse into my soul, my very essence which stares back.

Watching and waiting until that last moment.

Suffocating…

I am drowning under the figurative hand of society. But I will not give up.

I will catch the stars; I’m not going to listen to your harsh words.  Against all humanity I stand.

My kingdom will never crumble; and I with all that I am will forever live on in defiance.