007 — The Griever | Talon Z. Gray

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They were innocent once.
That’s not judgment—it’s grief.
Grief for wasted potential.
The moment they enter illegally, they're lost.

Such a death wish:
to enter a culture that chews people up for entertainment.

We fall when attention gets mistaken for love, money for meaning, and fame for purpose.

And imprisonment?
It’s more than steel and noise.
It’s time turned into punishment.
Time with no mercy.
Time spent staring at the ceiling, haunted by what could’ve been.
The cruelest part.
Existence is not a crime.
You are loved on day one, and forever more.

The food will sever your body.
Watch your time disappear into the buzz of humming fluorescents and the nightly screams of the foreigner neighbor behind the wall.

It was all preventable—for those with vision.
For those with money—they avoided this.

They'd come for us all if the price were right.
Once something is made legal, out come the smugglers.

Started reading how things in the past can really come back to haunt, it hit me-
we don't choose origins, or outcomes, or mistakes.

We carry the legacy of our parents, regardless of their choices.
Burdens are as heavy as they are imagined.
The world is still your oyster, reimagined.