Autonomy from peer pressure,
Leagues away from suppression
Or humility fueled by insecurity
And external forces.
An island OD‘d on controlitis anti-bodies;
Ironclad jurisdiction;
What enters my mind is what I allow
Not what you believe I need.
My consciousness unwillingly
Reached a new level with a few
Unspoken mistakes;
Through the loss of what I naively believed
To be my most valued possession,
My world got reformed.
Through a mistake, a spark was lit
As fifty thousand watts of light beams
Showed themselves from
The deepest chasms of darkness
That resided at the center
Of my soul.
A new level of awareness
Hard to describe, which is why
I find myself having to paint a picture
With the alphabet in tow.
What makes me stronger
Is not the belief that i’m better than you
No, far from it,
You’re far from the equation.
What gives me power is knowing
I control my own reality,
That my opinion of the world
Is something no-one can take from me
That no-one can convince me if I can
Or can’t do something
Unless I allow them to.
– Original-Dante ©2016
Photograph by:Â Bateri
O.D. 