Expressing Me

The Recurring Feeling

I am not your toy

For you to just play with,

I have feelings and I exist,

I'm not a fake, pretend myth.

I am not your personal stress ball,

For you to take your anger out on,

I know I won't always be alive,

What will you feel when I'm gone?

I am not always allowed to speak my mind,

Or so that's what I've been told,

You have no authority over me,

I'm so tired of being controlled.

I am not your little puppet,

You are not my eternal master,

The more you treat me this way,

The more I'll think I'm a disaster.

I am not allowed to speak back to you,

Just because you are crude and older,

And I need to respect you when

You are nothing more than a scolder.

I am not someone who deserves to be hurt.

I have a heart too but it's not stone.

What I am is the boss of me and human.

Something that you have no right to own.