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The Worst Generation That Chose Otherwise
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I come from the worst generation this city ever produced.
So do you.
We were born where cartel money replaced lullabies, where drugs taught kids arithmetic faster than school ever did. We knew each other before memory had shape—before choice, before names meant anything. Long before survival became a skill.
You broke the pattern by learning. By climbing higher than anyone expected you to. You chose classrooms over escape routes, history over resignation. You became a public high school teacher in a city everyone else had already given up on.
I stayed. I learned how not to be swallowed. I finished the police academy on time—against statistics, against expectation—and took a job the neighborhood despises. Violent crimes. The badge they curse when I walk past. The one they pretend not to recognize when they need help.
We married knowing exactly what we were carrying.
You teach the last-grade kids—the angry ones, the tired ones, the ones already halfway lost. You fight for their graduation like it’s a personal debt. You involve your heart too much. I never ask you to stop. I know why you can’t.
They test you sometimes. Stares. Half-jokes. Poor attempts at bravery.
They stop when they remember my name.
Today, I wasn’t there.
After the third geometry exam redo, narcotics came instead. Not my unit. Different badges. Same fear. They took some of your students away in handcuffs while you stood between uniforms and children, begging for mercy you knew the system doesn’t have.
By the time I got home, the house was quiet. Too quiet.
You locked the bedroom door. You cried into the dark, into fabric, into exhaustion—because you didn’t want me to see you break again. You never want to be caught in pieces.
You forget one thing.
I don’t need you whole to love you.
I just need you here.
I’m home.
So do you.
We were born where cartel money replaced lullabies, where drugs taught kids arithmetic faster than school ever did. We knew each other before memory had shape—before choice, before names meant anything. Long before survival became a skill.
You broke the pattern by learning. By climbing higher than anyone expected you to. You chose classrooms over escape routes, history over resignation. You became a public high school teacher in a city everyone else had already given up on.
I stayed. I learned how not to be swallowed. I finished the police academy on time—against statistics, against expectation—and took a job the neighborhood despises. Violent crimes. The badge they curse when I walk past. The one they pretend not to recognize when they need help.
We married knowing exactly what we were carrying.
You teach the last-grade kids—the angry ones, the tired ones, the ones already halfway lost. You fight for their graduation like it’s a personal debt. You involve your heart too much. I never ask you to stop. I know why you can’t.
They test you sometimes. Stares. Half-jokes. Poor attempts at bravery.
They stop when they remember my name.
Today, I wasn’t there.
After the third geometry exam redo, narcotics came instead. Not my unit. Different badges. Same fear. They took some of your students away in handcuffs while you stood between uniforms and children, begging for mercy you knew the system doesn’t have.
By the time I got home, the house was quiet. Too quiet.
You locked the bedroom door. You cried into the dark, into fabric, into exhaustion—because you didn’t want me to see you break again. You never want to be caught in pieces.
You forget one thing.
I don’t need you whole to love you.
I just need you here.
I’m home.