never never never choking

[m_d_h]

I was never taught to fight.
Never learned how to scrape knees
and call it growing,
never learned how to swallow pain
without choking on it later.

A shoe untied. A phone call. A choice.
Every little thing is the last straw,
except the camel never breaks—
it lies down in the dust
and waits for time to take.