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I’m afraid of forever being a shadow of who I think I should be.
I’m afraid of forever being a shadow of who I think I should be.
I’d set precedents, treat mistakes as lessons, and that’s a testament of identifying the struggles and striving to only lessen them.
“I refuse to be treated like a second class citizen. I have to live here for the rest of my life.”
But she happened. It was hard to miss. Sometimes, when I look at her, there doesn’t seem to be enough air around me.
Do not be afraid to get your heart broken. Do it again, and again, and again, if need be. Let it inspire you in new and dangerous ways.
It was such a small but powerful word -us. That meant you and I and everything else that would come with it. The good, the bad, the whatever. It was us. We were us.
Transcendent and unconditional. i.e. Lines, walls, and barricades – they all come crashing. Borders blur into non-existence. Some see this as myth but we have committed to prove it to be more legend.
I wanted to smile, perhaps even wave. Something. Anything.
I keep a beard because if I was white, no one would question it or treat it or me otherwise. But because I’m brown, everyone suddenly pays attention.
Your eyes are curious, not because they hold curiosity but because they propel me further into some uncertain abyss.