Gina Dang
Ambivalence
I choose to live
Most days
Some days
Life
Forces itself onto me
I can’t say no
To air
Penetrating my passages
Light
Reflecting images
Bare and barely bearable
Deeper
Through
Round, glistening
Eyes
Pinned wide
Boring the entrance
Into being
Wailing
Whimpering
Accelerating
Until
Chemicals flood
Flushing tissues
Swelling flesh
Red
In water
Purple
In darkness
Breathless
In beauty
Still
It wills
To choose
For me
