After Margo Tamez
With happiness and sadness, I’m the contentment
I am the daughter my mom raised not to be perfect, but
to value my imperfections.
Between black and white I am the grey, the grey cloud
in the loomy sky hovering above the city, waiting to
shower the city with all my thoughts.
I am the girl that lingers in the school halls
who people shove around, ignore and stare at with judgement.
With pain and anger, I will preach the thoughts that
linger in my mind, and I will make myself known and
seen by those who pushed past me and ignored me.
I am a natural disaster of fury and rage, that takes
down walls of judgement and dishonour handed to me by
people who view me as a piece of dust under their shoe.
She is the girl who taught me that apologies can only
be accepted by those who are worthy of it, and I am the
girl who apologizes to those I’ve wronged, not to those
who’ve wronged me.
MCF is a young writer who lives in Quebec.