Poem: What Doesn’t Kill Us…

“If what doesn’t kill us really made us stronger, then why am I broken?”

-Luckman Khan

What doesn’t Kill us…

Makes us stronger

Makes us wiser

Teaches us to go farther

Makes us fighters

What doesn’t kill us…

Makes us stranger

Makes us something unique

Turns us into strangers

…a torn masterpiece…

Leaves us with a hunger

an emptiness inside

roaring like thunder

A starless sky

Makes us trust less

Leaves us scarred galore

Makes us numb, and

shatters who we are

Like glass mirrors

What doesn’t kill us…

Leaves us alone and cold

without a road to roam

no place to call home

like a silent phone

Leaves us numb

like an icy touch

forever in search

of how to love

Leaves us wishing we’d died

Faces up at the sky

begging the question,

“Why?”

What doesn’t kill us…

Makes us stronger

like standing in Hell

But what doesn’t kill us

turns us in

to somebody else

“Well, you look like yourself

but you’re somebody else, only it ain’t on the surface

Well, you talk like yourself

No, I hear someone else, now you’re making me nervous”

-Flora Cash, You’re Somebody Else

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Till next time,

-Jordan Antonacci

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