I WILL NOT LEAVE MY DEAD ON THE GROUND.
LET ME SING FOR THE FALLEN;
LET ME MOURN AND LET ME WEEP.
LET ME LOOK AT THE SIGNS OF STRUGGLE
AND AT THE BATTLE SCARS.
THEN LET ME SAY THAT I MADE IT OUT ALIVE.
LET ME SAY THAT I’VE SURVIVED.
LET ME SAY THAT THE REST OF ME LIVED.

Keren Chelsea is a nineteen-year-old Filipina residing in the Philippines. She writes about love and depression–and rising from these.