Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion.

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.