Poetic Deconstruction

I like me when i talk

when i don’t shut up.

I like me when i scream

and when i don’t lower my voice.

I like me when i’m more present

and when i question, question myself.

That’s how i discover that

bothering does not make me smaller,

on the opposite, i get bigger,

even though the world pressures me

and asks me not to “cry” anymore.

I’ll shut up the day

we stop being oppressed,

the day injustice ends.

Written by Gabriela Torres.

Translated by Natalia Torres Díaz.