You draw a neon line between our differences 

A bright indication we are not the same 

But we both share blood and a heart 

Yet you treat me like a different species...

To hide

In plain sight

A smile

Decorating, 

Convincing,

Distracting,

Paints the face. 

Your voice, 

They say,

...

"This strange paradox that the liberals are illiberal in their demand for liberality, they are exclusive for their demand of inclusivity, they are homogenous in their demand for heterogeneity...

The world we're living in is slowly turning into a place where comfortability and silence will not be an option. Have open conversations with others, and discuss the importance of what is happening around you, but be respectful about it. 2020 is quite a year...

I have seen my voice diminished and ignored. If you don't say what they want you to say you are wrong. If you have your own thoughts and ideas you are wrong. You have to follow the mainstream to fit in. I don't fit in. They preach diversity and inclusion but what about me... 

2020... I'm tired.

Racism... I'm tired.

Coronavirus... I'm tired.

Mr. President... I'm tired.

Are y'all not tired?

Cause I'm fucking tired.

-Zyan Cyriaque-Silfrin

Bound by intangible liberty am 

I, 

As are you, for the clock strikes hope when our choices are one. No one is free of the brilliant

Confines of liberty,

and how glorious it is to know that you and I can coexist. 

I don’t think I should have children. 

Look, I know this isn’t a hot take, and  there aren’t a lot of people my age who want to have children. But I’m not talking about “right now”, or “waiting until the time is right”...

This 2020, 

I have cried and smiled a lot.

I have been discouraged and encouraged... but as the sharks, we have the sixth sense, called God, light, your inner voice or intuition brings me more peace that has been helping me to see...

The Library, one of my favorite places to go when I want to write or study- and also eat a healthy-enough lunch. I go there every weekday. I enter one of the automatic entrance doors. I swipe my ID card through the security gate...

Curiosity is having the cOURage to QUESTion.

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