How to Fight for Yourself

How to Fight for Yourself

Starving is so much

easier

than not.

How do you explain that?

Or what its like to know

The Voices

will never leave?

How do you fight when

your ribs are splintered,

your eyes are bloody,

and the bones 

of your knuckles are raw and 

exposed?

When you’re dead.

You’re certain.

But you can’t say how it happened.

What do you fight for?

Fight for

them.

Fight for

her.

Him.

The ones who’s eyes reflect

the person you were

and could be

when you’re too cold to remember your name.

The ones who stayed.

Fight for the ones who said

you couldn’t.

Make them fools.

Fight for the other

aliens like you.

Show them what they’re capable of.

And one day, honey, 

I hope

you will understand.

How to fight for yourself.