For a long time, I was taught to feel shame for the fact that when I get angry, I like to stay and sit in that anger…..sometimes,

I never understood why I was like that

&

I always berated myself for it but thinking back,

I have always felt righteous in my anger,

so I sat in it because i LIKED it.

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I only ever got angry out of love on behalf of myself & for other people.

The reason I wanted to stay angry in those moments is because I wanted to be loved through my anger,

in my anger my pain & my shame.

I don’t want to feel like I have to escape it. I want to be able to love myself in it and be loved in it.

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I want to be loved because I’m angry.

I want people to understand, my anger comes from my principles,

my belief that everybody deserves to have their humanity fought for.

I hate the fact that anger is correlated to hatred and cruelty because my anger was never born out of any of those things.

Being taught that had me believing I was a cruel and mean person.

Had me believing I was unkind,

Had me believing I was undeserving,

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Because I get angry easily but in reality I get angry easily because I care easily.

So NEVER again will I apologize for my anger

& Never again will succumb to shame for expressing it.

As there is no shame in my anger, only pride simply put i am the only one who can determine the meaning and expression of my feelings

because I am me.

- A poem by Hazin