Rise and shine I will.
Defiant you say, determined I say.
Rising from the ashes that once destroyed I.
In a land of constant denial.
Voices ripped away.
Eyes to be blinded.
Ears that cannot hear.
A stand I take.
Once defeated.
No more, shall I bend to those to wish me harm.
Scars to prove the unjustice I have lived.
Lay down I will not any longer.
My eyes have opened.
My ears can hear.
My vision is now clear.
The ugly I have seen.
In my darkness I have found my truth.
In a world that I despise.
Escaping this cycle of rats that go around.
From black and white I have chose color.
From politically correct I have chose to tell the truth.
Hiding the marks that I was once ashamed of.
Let them see the stories they tell.
Let them get offended from the ignorance they live in.
Let them throw slurs just so they can live another day.
Comprehend
they cannot.
See beauty as perfection they do.
In a box they chose to live, let them be caged.
I will not go in your box.
I am more then a robot.
I am beautiful scars, and all.
-Stephanie Houltzhouser
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