So I was inspired to write this after watching Kai Davis's Poetry Slam. The rhythm is hers but the words are mine.
How am I to change for your benefit and not for mine.
How did it go from "express yourself"
to "tone it down"?
We have the same struggles but you are conservative and I'm a liberal.
We agree on free speech but not on diction.
How can we "agree to disagree" but yet it's still "my way or the highway".
Well I guess I choose the highway because I will not back down.
How am I to say one thing but then I go back and do another?
You speak Proverbs but I speak Action Words.
You taught me to "be myself" but your actions say otherwise.
And I'm supposed to conform with your philosophy of "care what others think"
because I'm supposed to care due to my shitty insecurities?
Fuck I look like?
If that's the case then you do not know me.
If that's the case you need to look closer at the person that I have become.
I will not be another Barbie Doll.
If that's the case then you have the wrong one.
Because who am I to go back to a time when I couldn't speak at all?
