i don't like

to win

but

i don't like

to lose.

it's

an impossible game

where

winners get

insulted

and i'm not allowed to have

my pride

but losers get ostracized

and shamed

for never

being enough.

i don't like to win

but i don't like to lose

so i don't

play the game

at all.

I got out of

bed before

5pm today;

I feel tired

but I did

something.

Anything,

& that's enough

for today.

she posted that

calories are

merely

delicious points

while overcoming

an eating disorder

her candor

was infectious

unlike the disease

it took her a decade

to conquer

with a sense of humor

about starving

I still can't capture

this twenty-something

from Bangor

made an impact

she will never know of

Victory Has a Name

Victory,

A breathless wonder.

Standing atop adversity,

The dragon's head in one hand.

Never dared to dream,

Never dreamed to imagine;

That one could escape from fate somehow,

That that time would be now.

Clutched between tawny fingers,

The power of the universe;

Untamed and unrelenting,

Fearsome and worthy of awe.

Deep within sinewy muscle,

Beats the heart of a lion;

Never skipping even a beat,

Lest fate slip up like a slippery crocodile.

Captured by Father Time,

Nurtured by Mother Earth;

Grasped by the forces of Nature,

Challenged by the theorems of Pythagoras.

Once tasted,

It is not easily forgotten.

Once felt,

Not easily ignored.

Victory has a name.

It simply waits to be claimed.

(C) December 2, 2021

By: Katryese Austin

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