The atrocity of being shut out
feels like the burning wind in my asthma lungs.
When I’m playing tag in the third grade and the bully boy asks me if asthma is contagious
That’s what it feels like to be shut out
That my nature is inconvenient and
My peers have fear of catching me
(although I’m doing the chasing)
In either place, I won’t open my mouth
Even if it’s the only way I can breathe
@ angel rosen