irumeur… I’m Out of Control
I’m waiting… For what? Death. When? I don’t know! Am I a webtoon character where someone else gets to decide when I die, who I love, what I become? I try to remember the last time any decision I made for my own life came to fruition. As a young woman, I knew who I loved and what I wanted to be. Along my path, I’ve made choices to dare myself in facing the dangers of rejection, loneliness, and disappointment -believing if I tried hard enough I would one day be in control. Yet, here I sit without a single hope my dreams will come true. With each step, I get knocked back down. With each choice, I am forced to accept I am not in control. With each desire I am shown a trickle of satisfaction. With each change I make it only becomes a new way to fail. Why? Who are you who holds the pen to my creation? If your hand must intervene into my every drawing why do you give me barriers I can’t break through? Did you create …