Another Life

Another Life – Vanessa Chan

Torn down by unforgiving talons

Ripped apart by merciless teeth

Trampled deep within the cold ground

I will rise again.

They scorned me with yellowed glares

Noses upturned; eyes averted

Ensconced in a glass coffin

I will break free.

Beneath layers of doubts and misery

Sweet poison flows through my veins still

You will not keep me under wraps.

I will not remain silent.

Not anymore.

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UNPLUGGED from all senses

All traces of life before – erased.

Though I look the same

I am impenetrable.

I no longer am I.