*Rumors About Me*

When you are born into this world, 

You come with no labels. 

They don’t call you FAT, SKINNY, or UNQUALIFIED. 

You are just a human being, 

given a name and time of birth. 

It is only years later, 

after you acknowledge your existence in society, 

that you get labeled for all the things you are 

and are not. 

and it begins to affect you deeply. 

Why can’t we go on living our lives, 

Knowing that the only perceptions that should matter, 

are our very own? 

All that background noise, 

is lethal.