easy today. (6/14)

you are not a person
you are not capable of hurting anyone 
but your walls hold my weakness
where my strengths dissipate into nothing
of value.
to those who succumb to you- and there are many-
i have turned around
and you've become my strength
perhaps not under the best conditions
for it is strength born from hate
and anger 
and walls built from my faults
that you've been so kind to point out.
therefore,
we owe each other nothing
and four years without option
i've made myself some.


to those who pass through your doors
i have one message :
stay strong. you leave at the end of the day
but the things you do and things you say can always
leave with you. 
get through it. there is much more waiting out there. that i am sure of.


always keep a piece of yourself, so that if what you've given is taken away
you still have something left.


i could say so much more,
but i'll sign this off with a


.. since i'm leaving, thank you for some good and bad times
showing me every rung of the social ladder
but i don't owe who i am today to you,
i owe it to me. 
i won't make that mistake.