If You Own It

If you own it, it takes a piece of you.

If you detach, then their words and actions will await you on your peaceful journey back.

No no, ignorance is not your bliss, neither is apathy your luxury.

Learn to filter instead. Strain out the fear and doubts.

Rebuke the misogynoir. 

Spit out the taste of whiteness. 

Shed the skin of their approval.

And then break them.

The matches they use to burn you.

Break them.

One by one.

Written by Amira