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VOL. IV | ISSUE IV<br />
MARGINS<br />
You-Jin Kim is a queer spoken word artist who has been performing for more<br />
than five years across a multitude of platforms. She has performed for popular<br />
TDSB events such as Louder than a Bomb, PRISM, and IGNITE, as well as UTSC<br />
events such as ARTSIDEOUT and Festival of the Arts. Her poetry has been published<br />
in Young Voices, as well as performed by Canadian Stage. Kim's works<br />
often reflect her struggles with her personal identity that encompass sexuality,<br />
loss, forgiveness, and love.<br />
@youarejin<br />
we are.<br />
by You-Jin Kim<br />
we are born<br />
born on planet earth<br />
no idea of the future set ahead of us<br />
saved time and time again by humankind’s benevolence<br />
a blank slate of nothingness<br />
an empty canvas ready to be painted on<br />
we grow up and learn new lessons<br />
lessons that we sometimes have difficulty comprehending<br />
nevertheless, we try<br />
we try<br />
and then, they strap us into a rocket<br />
telling us to shoot for the moon<br />
that even if we miss, at least we’ll land among the stars<br />
but we missed and now?<br />
now, we are drifting<br />
in the middle of space, with no sign of life anywhere around us<br />
there is no such thing as a shooting star<br />
no wishes to be made<br />
only obstacles to be overcome<br />
every encounter with an asteroid has us shivering in fear<br />
it’s jarring to lose the ability to breathe<br />
lungs caged in by our ribs, heart pounding to the beat of a broken clock<br />
92<br />
93<br />
Visual Credits: Paweł Czerwiński
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