Iv'ry Blak

I remember finding taco bell sauce packets in a drawer of the refrigerator, and that's what I had to feed myself for and entire weekend when I was 8 years old I remember when I hid in a closet and ate bad sandwich meat at 2 a.m. when I was 14 Before she died, my mom used to tell this cute story about how she found me eating jarred salsa with a spoon when I was 3, I just "loved it so much," but what she didn't mention was that a jar in the fridge door was all there was for me to find for myself to survive on I have a lot of memories I never want children to be forced into reliving for the rest of their lives I don't know if it's brokenness or lack thereof that makes people so wicked, but I'm going to choose to be grateful that you don't know what it's like or hope you can overcome what has made you so rotten It's one thing to be a troll on the internet and another to actively advocate for the starvation of people you have deemed lesser than you No, I wasn't born to people who were the shining example of hard work and good choices, but I also starved just like you think I should have, and I will never be able to forget it $35 a year to prevent that for even a single child I will never meet will be money well spent This is the only trauma dump I will ever write; I hope that it finds you well, and you truly consider what hunger means for millions of children born to parents and conditions out of their control