Hydra

What you failed to realize

Is that every curse and every pox

Every disparaging designation

And vulgar vocabulary

Has not broken me down like you planned.

I come back twice as strong

Because every word and name and decree

That you can think of

I have already called myself.

These insolent idioms are not new.

And regardless of all that,

I know my worth.

I’m no monster like you or my mind say

I am a man. Learning from the past.

Growing back my heads one at a time

And trying my best to keep them from drowning