Choose Yourself

Kristy MC
Lit Up
Published in
Nov 24, 2023

Free verse

Mannequin in a shop in Dongmen, Taipei, Taiwan

Choose me
I’d beg
The ever abusive
Perpetual victim
Choose me
I’d silently wish
The emotionally unavailable
Only interested on their terms
Choose me
I’d weep to the
The hot and cold
Love bomber

Never was I chosen
Until I chose myself

I chose me
My expression
My peace
My goals
My happiness
Then,
I started to be chosen
By the right ones
I no longer had to wish
Beg, or weep for
The bare minimum

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Kristy MC
Lit Up
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Poet, writer, and freestyle dancer in Taipei, Taiwan. Instagram: taipeitinydancer