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Set Free

May 2, 2024
By Cartiersrock BRONZE, Timnath, Colorado
Cartiersrock BRONZE, Timnath, Colorado
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My corset is tightened to where I can’t breathe, my shoes are giving me blisters, and I just can’t think. Why am I here? What is my purpose? Am I just some, doll that's just going to sit in a closet? My hair was loose, now tightened. Held up tight in a slick bun. I’m in a world where I’m being yanked and tugged and my world is closing up. Now I’m in a different world, where I can breathe and think and laugh and dance. All the colors inside me are being let free. My independence is key. The key to laughing, the key to dancing. The only thing that’s left inside me is my heart that’s still beating.


The author's comments:

This piece is about me being set free from a dark place earlier this year (2024) And during that dark place I wrote poems over and over again and this is the best one I wrote, because I was let go from that dark place.


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