No Description Available Poem by Katarina Rheeder

They try to force you into a box
Into a hole
Into a frame
Into a cage
But you just won't fit
So they make a box for 'the people who won't fit into any of the other boxes'
But you overflow
They have to keep changing the box
And splitting it into more boxes
But you'll never fit
You'll never behave
You'll never be tamed
No label will adhere to you
So many labels have been made -
Crazy
Strange
Different
Unique
They're all veiled insults
All pathetic attempts to reduce you to a stereotype
But they can never reduce you
How do you reduce infinity?
How do you divide something which cannot be put on paper?
Cannot be put into words or numbers
Cannot be painted or spoken or sung
How do you live without feeling infinity?
You put on your coat and your smile and you die