I was simple, ordinary and considered fortunate as there were many things that I was told to be grateful for, but living a dull black and white life like didn’t feel right to me. 

So began my dreams for the future. I wanted fame, wealth, I wanted to stand among the elite. I knew from the start you don’t always get what you want for, so I worked to earn what I want.

 Before I knew it I was steadily rising among everyone and that was when my world turned upside down. 

People started to look at me differently and my path that was heading straight for wealth and fame started to take wrong turns. I was too late to realize I was being played by someone. 

A pawn with a strong to desire to move forward only to find out that they were just a sacrifice for the overall gains of a lazy piece that’ll only move if desperate.

I painstakingly spent 20 years developing, researching, and preparing to show the world the start of a technological revolution. But all I saw was my dreams crumbling and the sight of reality. 

I was accused of various things, sexual assault, illegal drugs, and etc. by those who I believed were extending their hands and providing support. There was nothing I could do, found guilty I lost everything and I became a shell only carrying sorrow, and despair.

I stand and stare down at the murky polluted waters.

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 It seems like a joke, I wonder why I believed I stood a chance in this world where people aren’t born equal.

Where greed overcomes friendship, and compassion. 

Where envy leads to enemies.

 I look at my surroundings for the last time, what I once thought was beautiful looked ugly. 

Unpleasant but I won’t have to deal with this anymore. 

I close my eyes hands and feet cold, my throat feels suffocated, my chest feels heavy and I plunge head wards towards the waters, I instantly regret my decision but it’s too late.

 I’ve submerged deep in the water, I see, feel, and hear nothing. 

At some point I see  a light, I move towards it.

I look up, tears roll down my cheeks as what I see is the blue skies, I hear the wind as it goes through the trees, and I feel the ground under my back.

 It feels peaceful until something with no texture lands on my head I suffocate and panic trying to get it off me but it’s no use.

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I turn around and I see a man looking at as I looked funny

"You're not around these parts are you?"  the man says

I reply"No, no I'm new here"