You apologize forhow you carry your mother's lonelinessquietlybetween your teeth.You apologize for how you carry your father's sinsinside your blood.You forgothow to carry yourselfaway for the historiesthat threatens to break youopen, leaving you with griefand unbearable weight of emptiness.Tell me, apart from the sadnessthick as smogliving inside your chesttell me the last timeyou held your faceand saw lovestaring back at you.How does destroying yourself prove your worth to others?
-Ijeoma Umebinyuo
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