Do you know what

Rejection feels like?

No?

Then let me tell you.

It's like someone

Slashing you in half

With a dull, rusty blade.

It's like someone

Trapping your throat in their hands

And squeezing until you're light-headed

But not letting you pass out.

It's like someone

Is pounding your head

With a dull, stake and mallet.

It's like being hit by a freight train

Going 100 miles an hour

But you don't die,

You only lie there in unimagineable agony.

It hurts, alot

But you will be put back together,

You will be able to breathe,

You will have someone to help ease the pain

But it'll take time.

Rejection hurts everyone

But it all depends on

Whether or not,

You are strong enough

To overcome it.

 

-Atania Brathwaite

 

OCT 7 2012