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By:Ebony Taylor

By Ebony TaylorPublished 5 years ago 1 min read

I levitate into the ether

I am built for the truth

I will not cringe into the face of adversity

Never been the one to “follow suit”

Leadership is what I dream, sleep, and eat

Loyalty comes innately

Challenges paved my way

Broken beginnings

Win column my happy ending

No hashtag for my struggle

I don’t desire to be trending

Too busy transcending

Growing reinventing

Rock hard shell

Impervious to attacks

Best believe the Empire will strike back

Clash of the titans inwardly

Empowered, locked, loaded, and ready to fire

On the whole tribe of traitors, liars, and energy vampires

Smoldering in the distance

My past; you ask?

I beat it to death and detonated it

Using my pain as the linchpin

Mastered the mind craft

Calibrated my rotation into the proper cypher

Renewed, refreshed

Regulated, straightened out, reborn

I carefully removed the scorn and all its poisonous thorns

Seeing the picture for what it really is

And not painting it into what I want it to be

Too many attempts to fake out reality

An Impossibility

Augmented civility

Not dealing creates a destructive fragility

Who can afford to be Fabergé skinned these days?

surreal poetry

About the Creator

Ebony Taylor

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