There
is no need to prove myself.
To
breathe is enough.
I
don’t have to stretch and strain
for
a badge,
a
car,
a
lover.
I
cannot hurry my heart,
or
anyone else’s.
I
am not obliged to rescue the world.
I
know this will make
do-gooders
squirm.
Let
them squirm.
I’m
not here to live up to
another’s
philanthropism.
To
breathe is enough.
I
am not here
to offer my life
to offer my life
to
a cause, an ideal.
My
time is not
a sacrificial lamb.
a sacrificial lamb.
I
don’t wish to appease any god.
To breathe is enough.
I don’t have to leave behind
To breathe is enough.
I don’t have to leave behind
a school,
a culture,
a religion,
a child,
of my own.
If
some, all or none of this happens
as
I breathe, it is okay.
But,
for me,
To
breathe is enough.
