The Burden of That Yes

Wicked smart

Cream of the crop

Reputable, golden child - prime role model material

BOOM! You quiver

Your identity is lost

You are a series of yeses

A blank slate - a malleable soul

Robot mode - wide, plastic grin and colourless, dead eyes

Yes, yes and more yes

as the you that was the role model, the shining star, is suffocated

and you discourage and disappoint the many who sought to learn from you, to emulate you

You are too scared to stand for the non-yes

Craving instead the false security of that Yes

Keri S. Smith