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Identity — Two Fold

By Simon Chau

Identity is a war

A clash between perception and reality

A perception formed by distrust

And a reality derived from connection.

I am the face of change and for that they hate me

What I am

What I symbolize

That love transcends color, creed, or culture,

That love is more powerful than their hate,

Their greed or their anger

They circle like vultures

Altering the system

Moving the goalposts

with every bolt of our life they dismantle

Excluding, dividing, and attempting to break our spirits,

But they cannot,

For our spirits have wings.

They want us to feel hopeless,

Like we are trapped and powerless

Our cultures and existence, a weight that we cannot escape.

What they don’t know is that I was born of dragons

And raised on los sueños de mi abuelo.

I am powered by the cultures of my ancestors

The harshness of their struggle

And the tenacity with which they fought for life.

The stars cannot refuse the sky,

Lovers cannot refuse the passage of time,

And I cannot refuse who I am.

This is my Identity,

A conflict,

A collision,

A coalescence,

Me

ILLUSTRATION BY RIGBY CELESTE

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