Any swing you take at me
Any gaze you spit at me
Any thing you do to me
I'll dodge it
I'll return it
I'll withstand it.
I am strong.
I deserve to be here.
I will leave my mark
for the world to see, when I'm gone
And almost forgotten.
I
am
everything you try to tell me
not to be.
I am whatever I can create
I am art
I am beauty
I am hatred.

I'm not
the person I've always been
but I am who I am
at the moment
in this day-
hour-
second.
I stop the clock.
I am energy.
I'll never settle for less than myself.
I refuse to be anybody i'm not.
You can't hold me back from being who I want to be.
Who I am
is defined by
who I make myself to be
and what I accept
and choose
and desire
and it is entirely up to me alone.
I can choose to live an actual life.
I can see the sun
or die in the shadow.
I can be strong
be powerful
I can become a living breathing person
(hard to do, in a world like ours)
or
I can be weak
fragile
skeletal
and annonymous-
black an white print
in the obituaries one day.
...Just another stat...

You can't take away what you can't grasp
in the first place.
Try to wrap a hand around my soul.

05/13/2003

Author's Note: Finally in words

Posted on 05/14/2003
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