I thought.

I really thought.

Can you hear the words screaming from my mind begging to be heard in the light of day?

I thought.

But I didn’t say.

I knew.

I really knew.

Who are you to tell me who I am and who I was meant to be? Can’t you hear me dying with every truth you tear from my famished mind?

I knew.

But I didn’t defend.

I believed.

I really believed.

I let myself fall into the cosmic arms of the universe and I breathed in the overwhelming suffocation of relativity.

I believed.

And so I defended.

And so I said.