Changing the world forever for better

by Eric Chaet

I won’t entertain
by performing the role
I embodied before I began to perform —

but I’ll perform the role
under the conditions for which I invented it.

I won’t be a martyr
to prove
to those who take whatever they can
from whoever can’t prevent it
that I am who I am —
that I’m doing what isn’t acknowledged.

I find other ways to meet my needs
& to intervene —
to deliver what I’ve made, what I bring.

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