Compare and Contrast
You all compare and Contrast
Like a graphic chart
You pick and pull
Tied by blood .
Forced to be different by actions
Only to be put in a knot
Mouths overflow with words
With eyes that view only the past
I remember you were conflicted
Pulled string by string
By someone else's actions
It's understandable
But don't compare and Contrast
His actions are not mine .
Their actions aren't mine .
I'm not a thug
I'm not a gangster
I am not selling drugs
I don't wish to look like a gangster
Why must physical attributions
Tie me with bad?
I question whether it's my lenses that must be cleaned.
Or yours
I am not residing within evil .
I am not the things u compare me to be
I am me.
Why pull on a string that isn't attached to you?
Why come for me?
Why do I feel tied down by the pressure
Of your view on me?
Why must I need to worry
Why must I feel anxious? .
Who are YOU when no one's around
Why judge me?
Who are you to judge me?
I no longer wish to be held down by my hands
I am not who you claim I am .
I am Gewills Abel Rodriguez
Known as Ezra
A child of god
Now 18
I am alive to fulfill my purpose
Here to live for my purpose
I am human.
I am not who you envision me to be.
YOU ARE READING
Shadows into Light
PoetryThere is no certainty with this story it is about an individual aka me writing poetry helping express their emotions experiences and moods they feel towards a situation or a person who will ever know?
