we survive

a point of interest

is to note that some part of

my identity is

tied up in the realization

that my people

and you should take that

however you will

are survivors.

they try to kill us

again and again

and again and

over and

over

but we just don't die

we survive

because that's

our instinct, to keep

on living, leaving only traces of

growth behind

so we can exist, keep building

and losing and suffering and dying and

god, we just

we just we suffer but we don't

die, you haven't killed us yet

there's something in us that just knows to

grow. we're saplings in ash

we're ferns after fire