Determination

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Morning
             a new beginning
                             a chance to start all over again
Unless you can't forget the past
             tearing at your heart
                             your mind

Alone, I face a society
             who doesn't know me
                             doesn't accept me
                                        hates me
No one understands
            no one will ever understand
Can't you hear me
Screaming
            crying
                            for anyone, anywhere
Suffocating in a family, a world
            who doesn't believe
I will make them believe.
Defying everyone I've met
            everything I've learned
                            everything I've ever known
Even if it costs me my life.

Love is the power behind it
            courage is the power that inspires it
                            honor is the power that keeps it alive

Only the dawn acknowledges me as I start down a treacherous path
            that no one has gone down before
I will be the first.
Nothing can stop me.

                       © by Anita Cheng
2/10/99