Michaela Renee Solomon Poet Free verse

"A Reputation That Can Survive Accusations "

A reputation like mine
Ain't born in the afternoon 

It crawls out of the alleys
Where whispers sharpen 
Themselves 
Into pocket-knives.

I walk through rumors
The way old gods walk
Through storms-

Unbothered,
Unmoved,

Already knowing the wind
Never had the final say.

They throw accusations 
Like stones at a monument 
They different  build.

But I'm  carved from a truth
That remembers every strike
And still stands upright. 

Integrity  is the currency 
You can't  Counterfeit 
Noise is cheap. 

And when they try to rewrite 
My name 
With their shaky  little stories,

My reputation answers
In a voice older than their

Shawdows:
I was built to outlive
Your version of me.

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