Defiance Poem by G J Salgado

Most of the time I have bad luck I'm a dark seed
My demons tell me I was never meant to breathe

I've cheated death five times
I only have four left of my nine lives

Since I was little I was sensitive to light
Always had problems trying to sleep at night

I still do to this day
When everyone's asleep I'm awake

I love to fall asleep at sunrise
I mostly keep my feelings in disguise

I don't like it when they get too close
As a kid I'd always have a bloody nose

Back then I didn't know what it all meant
I was born but wasn't supposed to be sent

I slipped through the cracks
I've been told it was too late to go back

Year after year they tried to destroy me more and more
Had me each time knocking on death's door

Here I am breaking heaven and hell's mold
I'm alive and I'm going to live to be very old

Many times they've tried to tear me down in misery
But I keep going on because I know there's no one else like me

Heaven's been pushed because I've made it
Hell's becoming crushed because Satan hates it

He confuses me with taunting visions and nightmares
He abuses me with haunting memories and night terrors

Using the past to come back and haunt me
But I make my own future it's what I choose to be