ThornGarmadon

As far as I can recall: I did not ask to be birthed Into a cycle of stagnation. I did not ask to be told, That my dreams are achievable; Only to see them limited by the scope of reality. I did not ask for a failing system, Passed unto me by half-dead corpses wearing suits. Nodding eagerly at one another, As they wait for an inevitable death. This I did not ask for, And I am certain that most of you did not either. But it is for that reason, And for that reason alone, I say: That it is up to us, We siblings bound by the chains of our forefathers, To create a system that is better, Than the bitter shackles of the past. Justice is what I lo

She was only six when the funeral homes started sending us advertisements, all competing with each other to be the best, to win her business. To win our business, more like; six is hardly old enough to understand what's going on. It's not old enough to understand why everyone is covering their mouths with their hands and failing to hold back tears when you walk into the room, or old enough to understand why people begin to outright sob when you start talking about what you want to be when you grow up. Once it was a doctor, before that it was a fairy princess, but right now it's a policewoman. And of course all the children have heard about t