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WALL VOX: THE VOICE OF OUR GENERATION | WINTER 2014
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COMIC BY DAWIT TRENCH | VOX STAFF
Want To By Jolisa Brown VOX Staff Have my confidence Be unlinked to my circumstances, Be proud and strong Without being undermined by my fears The fears that I imagine are so transparent To those around me I reason that people see them and know Where I hurt
I see their fears too and know Where they hurt But then there are always those precious Few individuals Who seem fortified Invulnerable to the bulldozer that so Viciously tears apart all the rest of us Weaklings We all look to them And feel courage Our fears shrink and hiss in helplessness As we are encouraged to stand beside Them These people lead us
We let them We don’t see the inadequacy in them that We see in ourselves And have learned to look for in others But then there’s that moment Where they falter And we, standing beside them, shudder For our fear has gained a foothold And is reveling in the sudden transparency Of their fear Like sideways dominoes, we, once Encouraged by them, all fall And the bulldozer demolishes all the walls Even the little ones that we hadn’t noticed
Had begun to grow strong just in front of us And we cry We don’t know why We were never aware of just how much We’d began to hope But the fear is now back Cuddled comfortably in our laps And we’re back to before square 1 As we are now alone
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