The Fight Between Invincibility and Me

January 13, 2015

I fight from behind my books

Against the crooked looks.

When I decline to go out at night

And all they see is someone shy,

Someone not lucky enough to have friends to dive

Into all that crazy “fun.”

But what they don’t understand is that I fight

For a future that’s better than my past life.

The sickness, the struggle, the things they’ll never know.

If only they’d look and see inside the girl who’s grown

From hardship and loss of innocence, to life and brilliance.

There’s more to these brown eyes than what you see on the outside.

Cancer tried to take my life twice,

Which means this life is no free ride to me

And a feeling of invincibility rarely keeps me company.

I work hard to ensure

That I have a future to live for.

So next time you judge how “fun” I may be,

Think twice about that girl you see.

She’s trying to achieve a life that has too often slipped out of her reach.

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