I Don't Want To Be Mythologized
Stop burying me in the shadows while I dig piles of dirt out of air castles... I refuse to be a myth or an allegory just because my name can't be said out loud.
Stop making me believe that there's beauty in being adored as a trick of the light when I've counted my own pulses and held my breath underwater only to feel alive. I did not surrender to this to have my heart trampled on or for my truth to be hushed.
This season was all kinds of lovely but the waiting is terrible and the weariness has been daunting. You have deemed my perceptibility a threat to your peace, an imbalance to your world where everybody else mattered except me.
I would rather run away, reach the point of no return than take this barren land for my burial ground.