gialla-vs-the-world

We ran and ran And did not stop Until we reached the highest rooftop of the highest building And there we rested We were wary, worn and alone Alone together Were we the only ones? As I drifted Into a slumber I heard sounds Running Panting Shouting They were coming for us To bring us back To imprison us To use us Our rest was interrupted And we continued To run away But they tried to break us To break our will To turn us against each other But we held on And kept pushing And fought back And more of our kind came out from the shadows We were not alone We had the strength that they could not break No longer did we need to fight And as our lig

We were special We were different We weren't like the the rest So they locked us up And tried to take our specialties away They tried to dehumanize us But we weren't human to begin with We were the stars in the Milky Way And the spirits in the trees in the forests The innocent smiles of children They tried to take our lights away But they only shone brighter They tried to hold us down Restraint us But the tighter the restraints The harder we fought The brighter we shone Until the day We Escaped    

When I was a little girl, my parents always took me camping. One night, I fell asleep in the woods. The cold had woken me up. I started to walk back up to our campsite but no one was here. “Mom! Dad!” I shouted. There was no sound except the sound of my voice echoing back to me. I started to panic as I felt snow falling. As soon as I looked up the snowing had become harder. I am in the middle of a blizzard I thought. The snow was so heavy I couldn’t see anything further than a few feet in front of me. I squinted and spotted something shiny—silver almost. I ran towards it hoping it would be a rescue team. Maybe my mothe