They expect you to fail. They expect you to not be as smart, quick witted. They assume you'll get pregnant by 16. Drop out by 17. On welfare by 20. They don't see you the way they see the other students. You're different. You're different and you must show them you are more than the stereotypes they have crafted to contain you since birth. You must shatter the cages they try to erect on your being. Burn and burn and smash them.
You are a wildfire. You will spread, for you cannot be contained.
Let your light shine.
And watch as they either bathe in your glow, or run from your brilliance.
- a mother's pep talk
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passenger
Poetry(poetry and short story collection) "please come home" / my body and soul long to shatter the dissonance and become , one.
