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Sledgehammer

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I got job once,

Do I go on? Or did you just tell I didn’t like it

I got a call one day

And with it, sealed my fate in white collar world

I was desperate and broke

And so any offer was on the table

I had just quit school

The naïve young woman I was thought

The universe would sing chorus of my triumph


Instead life hit like a sledge hammer

Not loud like I told you so. But loud let me show how so.

Life had been traced for me with centuries of failures before me

And so, you can imagine I wasn’t winning for myself

It wasn’t mistake, don’t get me wrong

I walked away from a possibility of ever looking back

And knowing i had a choice

But transitions are cruel

They come to you, knowing it will be your most tiring climb

And slowly my delusion hit me, I didn’t chose for things to come easy

But rather to know that any direction had a price


I sat every day in that black chair, signing and stamping away my creativity

For a solace of a paycheck

The solitude that my body will never catch up to my mind

Was such a loud cry

Every day I saw rudeness in all colors

And gave it such a canvas of a beautiful smiles

The wrenching feeling that time was slipping away, was all I could think

For my pain wanted no other perceptive

I handed out a summary of my experience to anyone who would ask

And they all seemed to want to tell just one thing

I didn’t have what they were looking for


And each time then would lead to my next time after

I was a lioness that had forgotten it could once roar

For I knew I was the hunted now

Each day tackled all my principles to the ground

To confront who was I without my writing?

Did each day take away a piece of myself?

I was doing everyone proud

At the cost of just being another one alive

And one day just another to die

Never a figure that changed the norm in a period of scorn.

 

 UBB

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