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Privilege. {poetry}

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What I need you to know

about me is that

this place I am in now

is suffocating

I never belonged here.

I couldn’t take a deep breath.

Now that I am back

the air is stale

with memories

that make me choke.

But I am learning to

breathe deeply again

anyway.

What you need to know

about me is that I am acutely aware

that life is a privilege.

My life is a privilege.

I want to share that privilege

with you.

I want you to understand that

I have had many sacred moments,

enough to taste the beauty

and know that it is out there,

waiting somewhere,

for me to claim it.

The beauty is woven into

everything.

Hope has been enough

to keep me going,

and I want to wolf it down,

and delicately savor it,

at the same time.

I want you to know

that I will do everything

in my power

to welcome love

while I sweep away the ashes

of that other time

in my life.

I will embrace life

Because living

is what I need to do.

*****

ShannonShannon Lockhart is a social-worker-turned-poet who has recently embarked on her newest journey as an artist and writer. She spent 12 years working with indigenous communities, genocide survivors, and human rights activists in Guatemala before returning to the U.S. with a husband and two sons. She is now a Spanish teacher, translator, and above all, a mother who is trying to impart joy, gratitude, and respect for the unexpected bumps along the road.

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