They ask why they never saw me work.

I answer:

Because I started young,

and I learned early that money comes and goes~

and the day it stays

is the day I rest.

I worked jobs that ripped me off.

I worked a job I had to sue.

I worked places that wanted me to accept being cheated

and then fight just to get what was already mine.

I worked jobs where I was sexually harassed.

Jobs where silence was safer than truth.

I was the one who walked away from what I refused to tolerate.

I was the one who knew if I spoke,

it wouldn’t be my truth they believed anyway.

I worked places where groups banded together to get me fired.

And when I spoke up,

I was still silenced.

They kept their positions.

I was labeled “the problem.”

What they never knew

was that the knowledge they used to improve their environment~

the ideas that made things better~

came from me.

Others got the credit.

My name was never spoken.

So when you ask how I did it~

here’s the truth:

While everyone thought I had nothing going on,

I was in the back catching side jobs.

Building quietly.

Starting my own businesses.

Some of them were taken from me.

Some were robbed.

Some I walked away from

because I didn’t want to be the boss.

Low key?

I already am. haha