BEING HUMAN

Marissa

'Mom!', 'Mom!, the package has it come?' I shout at my mom 'Yes Marissa yes!' Mom replies i felt so relieved as i had been waiting for my iphone 6s for a week. 'Thanks mom' I say 'Your welcome Menya' Mom replies. Mom calls me Menya because it means beauty in our native tongue Yomsay, she always insists that I speak in yomsay because shes afraid i'll forget my heritage and stuff...'Hey menya,' mom says, 'yes mom?', 'say thankyou in yomsay' she says. I reply 'Teha'ahnoka.' I had only been to Yorrul once but i had loved it it was amazing on the border of the carribean so it was always scorching hot, beaches and hot boys everywhere.

Around 20:00pm Dad came home just as i'd finished setting up my new phone. The first thing i heared was arguing between him and mom in yomsay, i caught a few sentences like 'ig, tehaor'ulgwte, ig teorlade, yo'orul no'orte teor, gwor, tehaemr'yem!' That was Dad talking saying to mom i thought i told you not to go there, mom's reply was, 'yo'orul de'ornote ceor'noter'yorla mn'em!' Meaning you don't control me. I knew what they were talking about instantly mom's older sister aunty Marea or mara, last year she got into an accident, and was moved to lower-state Alabama, as she had gotten her leg amputated, mom had been seeing her, and dad had found out, they argued about it til eventually mom stopped going, but she had recently started going again but wouldnt tell me why. We live in a generation where everyone is equal, mixed race is a blessing and disability..a curse. Both my parents are mixed raced, from Yorrul, my mother from the Seque bloodline and my father from the Velay bloodline, giving me the name, from my great grandmother, Marissa Magdaline, Igseay, Seque-Velay.

I've never agreed with the laws of the world, disabled people curses? I HATE that, everyone should be equal, why isn't everyone equal?