Normal can kill

Normal can maim

Normal can eviscerate the very soul

I have often heard the question

“Why can’t you be normal?”

Normal

Normale

The usual

Not outside the agreed upon parameters of what is

Acceptable

When did those two perception become

Synonymous, I wonder

I have seen death within the eyes

Of those who were told no

Because they weren’t normal

Now we are in the midst of a new normal

One that is erasing the very meaning of the word

and replacing it

With what

I wonder