BACK FROM HELL

BY ALEX

 

 

I paid in blood to be here. 
I paid with a childhood littered
with bigger monsters than you. 
I’ve been beaten into a silence 
more times than I’ve been 
embraced on this Earth. 
You haven’t seen what I’ve seen. 
My rock bottom went so deep 
I’m pretty sure it was hell. 
I spent a decade climbing out of it. 
My hands blistered.
My feet swelled. 
My mind said I can’t take it 
anymore. I told my mind 
You better get yourself together. 
We came here for joy and 
we are going to feel all of it.
I’ve been hunted, killed, and 
walked back to earth. 
I snapped the neck off
every beast that thought
it could and you want
​to take my seat. 
The one I built with the story 
of my life. Honey, you won’t fit.
I juggle clowns like you. 
I pick my teeth with fools like you 
for fun. I have played and slept 
and danced with bigger devils.

(Rupi Kaur)