“Don't base your decision on the opinions of those who don't want to see you grow.” 
― Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

i'm not done fighting this bloody battle

do not enter

do you ever get
this sense
that all people ever want is
the ability to make
things go their way
in all ways? that the happiest
people are those
who have worn
out a path
going round and round
their one, their
sacred, their singular
way? although,
maybe not happiest,
exactly.