Perpetually Infantilised

Perpetually Infantilised by Rae Sabine

There is an exhaustion that comes

from having to prove

what others are simply given:

capability, credibility,

the benefit of the doubt.

I’ve spent years living beneath

other people’s descriptions of me,

translating myself

into something easier to believe,

softening my certainty

so it wouldn’t sound like defiance,

explaining my own mind

as though it required proof.

I’m tired of speaking

a language I never chose to learn.

I’m learning instead

to answer to my own name.

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