Our Silent Boiling Anger
The silent anger boils,
Being told to blow out the flame of the injustices
around me,
Being told that one person can’t make any change,
The silent anger simmers, turning into more silence,
sadness and guilt
Each day surrounded by people,
Surrounded by people who judge and don’t support the
minorities,
Many who want everyone to be like them but not their
actual selves,
Many who avoid and walk away from me,
My life is a fashion show, where there are judges
critiquing every contestant,
Critiquing their culture, their appearance, their
sexuality, their gender, their race, their ‘social class’, their age, and much
much more,
I boil until there is not enough heat surrounding me,
The silent anger turns into self-hate
I want to change,
I want to be like how society expects me to be,
the stereotypes,
I look at myself in the mirror and the reflection
seems like a stranger,
I felt like an internet connection being disconnected
from myself,
Who am I?
Who am I, who lets others determine who I should be?
Who am I, who lets judges take over me?
Who gives the judges the right to shape who I am?
Who am I?
I am who I am, someone who doesn’t need to change,
Someone who will make the change in others’ minds,
Someone who will bring the forgotten rights of the
minorities,
The rights; to feel belonged, to enjoy own culture, to be accepted, to be
acknowledged, to be your true and unique individual
Today, I bring people together through protests,
petitions and much more,
Bringing people who believe in what I believe,
Together, we talk to schools, workplaces and our
societies,
Pointing out the injustices kept hidden and the
impacts of the words of those fashion show judgers,
The beastly words, comments, segregation and
discrimination,
To light flame to the injustices,
To get people to let their boiling but silent anger
out and be heard,
Together we are powerful
Together we make the change,
We are capable together to bring awareness,
To gradually confront those who believe in being
prejudice,
Removing the cover of
prejudice
Together we rise
and gain hope,
Together we gain
strength,
Together we
overcome
Together we are
powerful
