Serena Malcolm

You don’t belong here

She said

She said

You are in the wrong place

You are a disgrace

A face that doesn’t fit

You don’t belong here

and you need to quit

She said

QUIT!!

Let me be clear

You aren’t even meant to be near

this table

Let alone sat here at this table

You are not able

She said

Take a look around

and tell me what you see?

I see a sea of faces

1…2…3

that are not at all like you and me

See? 

You don’t belong here

She said

She said

You must be soft in the head

Deluded

Brain dead

to think that you belong 

You see you?

She said

You, my friend, are wrong

You need to get gone

Get back there

where you came from

You’re an imposter

A fraud

A haunted devil of a confidence trick

And you make me sick

STOP IT!!!

I said

Stop. It.

Enough

You have plagued my thoughts 

for long enough

Your vitriolic tendrils might be rooted

deep inside all my childhood…. slough

But I’ve grown up

I have learned

that i am tough

And enough’s enough

I said

I said 

enough

Its my turn to speak

Ive listened to you tell me im weak for long enough

Long enough to realise that

You’re all huff and no puff

And I am tough

Not unbreakable 

But capable

of picking myself back up

Calcified

And fortified 

A diamond in the rough 

I’ve realised

That I am enough

I am strong

Yes, a fragile

Messy

Bumbling

Kind of strong 

But I am strong

I said

I said 

You, my friend, are wrong.

I belong.