Just Because I'm Alive Doesn't Mean I'm Living For You

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all you're doing
is finding more ways
to control us
to limit us
to have power over something
so that it will work
the way you want it to.

so when i yell at you
in all your unreasonableness
don't scold me
for lack of self-control,

because i was never allowed
to control myself
in the first place.

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