2. The younger years
The naïveté of youth, it skipped over me like God’s angels at the first Passover. Not the feast, but the killing of the first born sons. It wasn’t for me. I’m not the one. I’m a girl, so I can’t be the first born son. I was born with knowledge of the evils of this world. I was born knowing that this was my he**.
From the beginning I knew, this was not what I wanted to do. To agree to participate in this system is to believe we have no choice. We just exist in a system created by fools and of course the clueless think that it’s cool.
I knew though. From the start, I knew. I knew that I’d never agree with you. I knew that I needed at least one parent, but this system took them both away and I couldn’t bear it. I couldn’t take it, I couldn’t stand it. I fell so hard that my feet almost broke when I landed.
I started out so kind and sad, but when I realized where I was, who was there, and why they got mad, I turned evil, cynical and bad. I started hurting people just because I was angry and hurting and wanted to see that they were not even worthy.
I poked and prodded and caused a schism. I hurt and I hurt, until they fell into a prism. The prism was a prison, they just didn’t know it. I trapped them like cattle just as the system does, without even a small battle. They cried and cried and called on me, to wipe the tears from their eyes and praise me for my disguise.
They didn’t know I hurt them, they couldn’t tell it was me, but all along, inside, I could feel I was losing me. Who I was, who I wanted to be. It was dying so fast, I could hardly see, but I knew that each time I did this, it hurt mostly me because I knew I was the one who caused all their pain, yet they loved me more, not even the same. I used them and used them until I could tell that I was definitely going to he**.
I sat back and watched as the world went on, not knowing how ravenous of a beast I had become, but loving me as their own, as a saint who no one has known. As a princess, a queen, or even just a celebrated dean. I fed off of their pain and it drove me insane. Insane with power and pleasure, it caused me to see that I was not even close to being me.
The kindness I had, the will to help all. It left me like the people in the Miamidade mall. They fled the demons, or fallen angels, or interdimentional creatures. Never looking back, except to see the progress of their escape. As they did, so did I. I went and saw what it was like to get high.
I explored my brain and the world in a way that didn’t allow me to be tame. It set me free to be who I always was. I just needed to start over and figure out what was different, what had changed, and what was needed to get back to those days.
So that was my journey, from good to bad to worse, to Godly, but it took me years of fighting my family, fighting the world, fighting myself, but it wasn’t the fighting that I did myself. It was the research, the opening of my heart that I made as my goal. The need to find out why people care so much about each other and what they get from one another.
My younger years were full of longing and searching and torching my future, of abusing and using and harassing my teachers. My younger years are disgraceful and sad, evil and bad, but they made me who I am today and I can’t say, the hard work, it didn’t pay, as I no longer hurt and harm and harass. Now I look for love and where there is none, I pass. I have found that love is the key because God is the only one who can set you free.