I want to go to a desert,

Where nothing can bother me,

Where I won’t bump into anything,

To close my eyes for minutes walking for miles,

To anywhere where I don’t have it planned out,

My eyes shall not guide me anywhere,

It shall be my mind.

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I want to talk out loud my mind,

I want to cry when I couldn’t in front of people,

I want to scream when I couldn’t even in my own home,

I want to let it all out,

I want to let my body do what it wants,

I want to sing lousy without anyone complaining,

Howl obscene curses when I couldn’t in a scared society,

Recite poetry and smash instruments and objects, all at the same time,

I want to dance like I’ve just discovered I have legs,

I want to run naked like a reborn baby,

I want to yell angrily or happily at the world and anyone up there listening to me.

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Never in my life I felt my body naked under the sun, with the cool breeze,

I never have put my face on a flat surface, and licking it,

I never smashed my fists into it,

I don’t know what to feel until.

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I want to say out loud and perhaps yell in never before all my years:

You don’t control me anymore

You cannot tell me what to do

It’s my body and I can damage it up

It’s my body and I can dirty it up

It’s my body and I can fuck it up

It’s my body and I can make love to whoever I want

It’s my belief and I’ll keep believing in it

It’s my political opinion and I can tell any other party to shut the fuck up

I’m not small or inferior

I’m not weak

I’m not quiet

I’m not ignorant

You don’t own me, motherfucker

I have rights too

I have feelings too

I too have opinions

I’m allowed options

I’m allowed opportunities

You can’t shut me down

You can’t corrupt me hard

You can’t slave me

I don’t care if it’s written in stone

You won’t live forever

No one will remember your name in a hundred years

There shall be newer people

Forever challenging traditions, laws, norms, and ideas

All those who oppose them will have already died or be outnumbered

We won’t go violent

That’s only if you drive us to do so

I want to embrace myself

Because I’m beautiful in my own eyes

And goddamn it, I’m sexy and I know it

I’m fucking great

And don’t you tell me otherwise

I’m my own inspiration to live, to fight, to thrive

I’m intelligent under my own ideas

I’m right because I’ve said so

Taking into account what I say will not just empower me

But everyone who needs empowerment

Who needed it long ago

Who need it now

And who will need it in the future.