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Sep 11
poem
Abriatis

i am me.

it's 12am on nine-eleven-twenty-twenty.
my name is rowan, and i am eighteen.
i have struggled. i have cried. i did not think i'd make it this far.
i did not think i'd do half the things i have.

i did not think i knew how to love. how to cry. how to be human.
i believed i was a waste of a creature,
a husk of what someone was supposed to be.
that i was not meant to be here.

sixteen. that was the age. i wasn't supposed to live past then.
but i am here. i am here on wobbly legs. i am standing on my own.
i am here, and i will not go.
by virtue of creation, i am allowed to live.

there is nothing anyone can say or do that can take that away from me.
i am my own person. i am a person. i am me.
nothing more, nothing less. i am me.
i have a heartbeat, i have blood coursing through my veins. i am me.

getting this far was turbulent. still, i am recovering.
i am learning about myself. about people. about things.
i stand on shaky legs, but i am here. i am me.
and no one can take this away from me.
 
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Posted: 09.11.20
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  1. Treblemaker
    Sep 11, 2020

    I love this piece. I heard you speaking it to me, even though I've never heard your voice. The line. 'By virtue of creation, i am allowed to live' is such a beautiful line and i think everyone can relate to this each in their own. At least i did. beautiful piece. and happy birthday :)

    I write because the music of language spoke to me in books and I wanted to make a beautiful noise to answer back ~ Lee Williams.

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  1. Abriatis
    Sep 11, 2020

    thank you :)

    "i'm me, nothing more, nothing less! i'm me!" - shinji ikari

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