Dream #80

I am not a slave
I am not your responsibility
I am not your project
I am not what you want me to be
I am what I choose to be
I am what I feel is right
I am not bound to your definition of right and wrong
I am not bound by your judgments
I do not need your help
I do not need your god
I do not need your pity
I do not need your contempt

I am who I am
you cannot hinder me
you can call me what you will
I do not need your approval

I need one person
One person to keep me sane
One person to remind me that I can feel something

Now that I have that one person
There's only one more thing I want

Its not your money I'm after
I just want change

People to wake up
Take to the streets
And demand their lives back

But why do you care?
I'm just some punk kid

17 years old
Mohawk
Old clothes
Bruises from a concert

You look at me
You judge me by sight
You turn around
Walk away

Yeah, I'm different
But look at yourself
Are you alive?
or just living?




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