TOLERANCE!! This is too hard for me, I feel I can't go on, I don't think that I am going to make it through this storm. The pressure is becoming too much for me to bear, I have to clinch my fist and bite my lips to fight back the tears I think they respect me, I think they only mean well But sometime its just too hard for me to tell. I am so confused I don't know which way to turn, And it doesn't help when they tell me in hell I am going to burn. Even though these are just words they still hurt, I feel so bad, disgusting, unclean,  I feel lower than dirt. You are dumb, you are stupid, you are ignorant, you are an ass, These are the things they say to me every day as I pass. The pain that I feel is too great and too much, Til it even hurt me when you touch. I feel that I was an accident, like I was a mistake There is only so much abuse that one's soul can take. This is how they make me feel, This is my world and this is real. But even though this is my sad reality I refuse to let them get the best of me For I will stand tall, and I will be strong I will prove to all of them that they are wrong. I will rise above the mess and strife, For I will best the best and bring meaning to my life. I am some body and I will go somewhere, I refuse to cry any longer I am wiping away my tears. No longer shall I be oppressed no longer shall I decline. God made me for a purpose and this purpose I shall find. They can say to me what they want to, It doesn't matter to me anymore, because I know now what I have to do. I will use what they say and do to motivate my spirit, Because they are no longer factors in my life, I know now that the sky is my only limit.                                                                             BY: Ethan Ruben LeVar Quant.

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