With careful fragments I’ve built
A shredded identity, pillaged by hope
Ransacked by heart-break
I’ve customized my grief
To the rapture of my outlaw-state
In glowing morning I feared
Being left, and prophesized abandonment
In which my very atoms
In the cosmic mirror, were scattered
I couldn’t help martyrhood
Like the shell of my grandmother in me
How we give our power away
And how those authorities contrive
To judge our worth, in quick months
Of evolutionary design, bitter comments
That I remember to this day
About the kind of man I am
With careful foolishness I betrayed
The self, that wanted to join in marriages the most
A wild execution of the simplicity
That marked me from my childhood
Of having been raised in poverty
Boycotted from those simple joys
I am a frenzied bargain of dreaming cheeks
Without the spice of wonderful confidence.
Wuji Seshat 