By Tahra Dactyl

Humans are incredible at acting,

except not on a conventional stage.

We act on a stage of discrimination:

sexism,

religious intolerance,

homomisia,

racism.

A stage of social constructs.

We have doomed ourselves to lives

of acting.

Pretending we’re someone we’re not.

Forced into personas by our fear of being left out,

our fear of being seen as

different.

We’re all good at acting,

because

of our stage fright.

 

Editor: Renée Vazquez