''Different''

Different

I'll not sing sour melodies imposed by you, or write sad symphonies I'm expected to

My humble feet, won't fit your shoes, your heels too high for the views I choose

My furrowed brow you say offends; my lashes long; your wrath impends

Whilst tone of skin detracts your view; though not my choice; an offence to you

Your spirit cries in your castle, deep, as infected flies swarm the thoughts you keep

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Like broken glass, glared, frozen fears, a shattered  path of fragmented tears

Poisoned roots form words you sow, tainted soil grooms the hate you grow

But I'll not wallow in sympathy, scorned and despised for integrity

Like a fish, I'll swim with faith beside, through putrid nets strewn at my side

To waters blue; a sunset hue, where all things different have voices too

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If snow was red, how bleak the show, and if roses bled, how would they know?

Ask not the swallow the path it flies or question the elephant why its tusks reside

The beauty of difference transcends all things; nature's images on silent wings

And yet there's doubt, though I am free, for the chains you wield you say belong to me

Come walk in my shoes; the soles never dry;  soaked in humanity's innocent cry

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Let silver clouds follow  paths driven, let grass grow thin where daffodils have risen

And magnolias rise in the morning sun, unhindered by shadows and cobwebs once spun

Blossoms of white, whispering secrets in glee, as grey rabbits at night scamper tirelessly

And if blind we be, just one colour see; a grey canvas we'd paint without integrity

Yet, hope is free, for a shared destiny; so I give you my hand, for I am proud to be me