My existence needs no apology.

My existence needs no apology.

My existence can be met with:

-celebration (curiosity)

-neutrality (indifference)

-disdain (anger)

Or a great many other reactions

But my existence needs no apology.

What you perceive of me or onto me, is not me,

How you interpret my words, is not necessarily my meaning

Why you fancy me, has little to do with who I actually am.

My existence needs no apology.

Pain and suffering 

Needs an explanation

Because there seems to be

far too much of it in our world

Pain and suffering—

pain and suffering

Needs an apology

The horrors in this world,

The hatred in this world,

The hurt in this world,

Needs an apology.

My existence needs no apology.

Written by Rose A. Fitzgerald during a Therapeutic Poetry Workshop courtesy of SocietyX with Lisa Ann Markuson regarding apologies.