Feb 17, 20211 min read

Reasons

by Megan Apostol, Canyon Crest Academy '23

The word “phase” is disgustingly misused

We tell the lesbian girl she’s going through a “phase”

When really,

Her mom was better at love

Than her dad, and she knew

She wanted to spend the rest of my life with someone

Just like her

We say the young man’s grief from his mother’s death is a “phase”

When his internal thoughts continuously turn to the knife in his kitchen

Just to be held in her arms again

Each “phase” weakening his will

Yet, we continue to pollute his ears with “phase”

We celebrate that the middle aged women is over her “phase”

Because we see her laughing

Little do we know it’s all for the protection of her daughter’s purity

And we never see the tissue boxes that are piled on her bedside

Nodding is not agreement

Smiling is not the equivalent to happiness

You are not the definition to the reasons besides your own

Because, so what does it matter if choices change when the truth is definitive?

This is now, “phase” or not.