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Remembering the First Time After a Long Time of Not Being Able to Say No...

By Charlotte HansellPublished 8 years ago 2 min read

No

No

Have you ever thought about how good that is to say?

When you feel like the world is treating you In a bad way?

It's amazing

This release we can get from admitting we are not okay.

To be passive is to be silently angry

Things are said and we don't know how to be

But I am now in a place where I can say no

No

So I invite you, with all this hatred and anger to tell me anything

Tell me that I am an idiot,

Tell me that I can't do something

Tell me that I won't be something

Tell me that I can't live the way I want to live

Tell me that I can't say the words I want to speak

Tell me that there is no tomorrow

Tell me that there is no yesterday

Tell me that it's going to get worse

Tell me that it's never going to get better

Tell me that you don't know how to talk

Tell me that you're right

Tell me that I'm wrong

Tell me everything that you can to try and make me fall back into the pit of depression I am so used to and I will tell you no

No

I am not who you think I am

I am not weak

I am not going to sit back and listen to your words

I am not going to let you hurt me

I am not going to let you change me

I am not going to let you make me believe your lies

I am not going to let myself become what I should

Become what I think I am going to be

Because you forgot something about me

You forgot that no matter how close I've gotten that I haven't given up yet

That the world has been against me and shouted at me to end it all

Given me every reason to not see the light

Given me every reason to not stand here and not fight

But I won't give up

You haven't got a chance

Because I am going to make it

Because I am strong enough

To say

No

inspirational

About the Creator

Charlotte Hansell

A student and an artist just hoping to find a way to fit my poetry into the world..

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