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#21

I’m a Person

SparksInTheNight

Mar 24, 2024

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Why is it such a surprise to you

That I bleed just as much as you do?

Why is it such a surprise to you

That I ponder?

Why is it so very strange to you

That I feel love that is good and true?

Why is it so very strange to you

That I wonder?

———

Why do I have to prove

Prove that I’m alive?

Why do I have to prove

I’m a person?

Why do you disapprove

Of what makes me thrive?

Why do you disapprove

Of my version?

———

Why must I hide everything I feel?

Why must I hide the fact that I’m real?

Why must I hide everything I feel?

All my longing

Why do you you think you’re so different from

All of the people who live on crumbs?

Why do you think you’re so different from

Those you’re wronging? ———

Why do I have to prove

Prove that I’m alive?

Why do I have to prove

I’m a person?

Why do you disapprove

Of what makes me thrive?

Why do you disapprove

Of my version?

———

Love and flame and rage and hate and fear and hope and solidarity

All of this and so much more and every moment that you never see

You think I am yours to mold, to hold, to scold, a thing that can be sold

I am rage and I am love I am eternal and my soul is bold

———

Why do I have to prove

Prove that I’m alive?

Why do I have to prove

I’m a person?

Why do you disapprove

Of what makes me thrive?

Why do you disapprove

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Table of Contents

#2 Fists into the Sky

#4 Go Back to Sleep and Starve

#5 She Still Lives

#8 Handsome Boy

#10 Hate Story that’s a Love Story

#11 Running Towards

#12 Lessons Learned and Unlearned

#13 Undead City

#14 Battle Cry Heart

#15 His Stories

#16 Every Second

#17 The Dark and I, We Get Along

#18 Chain-Blind

#20 Will-O’-Wisp

#21 I’m a Person

#22 What Do I Do?

#23 Not So Different

#24 Morbid Symptoms

#25 Carpenter’s Wife

#27 Angler Fish

#28 What’s In The Dark?

#30 Righteous Joy

#31 Love like a Weapon