I better understand lives like yours
You demonstrate a lack of willingness
To accept the individuality of others
Something inside you smothers your humanity
Your humility absent because you don’t feel loved
You were abused – raised in the dark
And my light shines so bright
You frown as so not to drown
In your own inadequacies
You sink deeper into groupthink
You are toughest when you are with others
Alone I exhibit more strength than any group
Decide my own direction until perfection
When you or your group start doing what I do
I must be doing something else
In order to stay fresh – and you need me
Your existence is so gray and archaic
Someone told you that pushing me would hurt me
And it would make you feel better
But all it did was help me become stronger
The longer you harass me
The weaker you become
I become numb to your name-calling
I loose all desire to be around you
Or anyone else like you
I grow a distain for anyone
Or anything that condones your type of behavior
We cannot have the same Savior
My God can never be that abusive
I felt alone everyday
Inside my home I closed the door
And I’d go deeper inside of me
I won’t hide inside of my pride
To stoop to homo or suicide
But don’t push me
You love to say “or what!”
“What are you going to do about it!”
Well, I am going to remain who I am
And gain strength while you
Disappear into nothingness
The older we get the better you used to be
The better I am currently
I will travel this planet and see
That the whole world loves someone like me
I was born with natural leadership qualities
You say you know people
People say they know me
And publically or silently
They always admire my ability to be free
I better understand lives like yours now
You used to chase me home
You and your friends used to make life hard
The older we get the more of you
Are now behind bars
The older we get the less respected
All of you have become
You all used to be so cool
Now you all look so dumb
You made me an outsider
So now of course I’m not here for acceptance
Every time I perform
I am having creative conversations with my Creator
Of which I’ve given you permission to listen
Multifaceted we are – painting pictures
Painting pictures actual or abstract
But always graphic
And I would love for you to love it
But if you don’t I rise above it
See the drama and the trauma that I went through
Makes me never covet any acceptance from you
Through all of life’s complications
I put together bits and pieces of my life as presentations
To the resilience of human manifestations of triumph
Someone you picked on as a nobody
Now I am a GIANT
“I’m 20 feet tall”
And I don’t mess with you at all
But if you mess with me
You’ll soon see my ability
To remove all noise from my life
To find my harmony
Yes I am that little boy from Catholic school
The one you said only had
1 shirt, 1 tie and 1 pair of pants
The one you would not let be
Until I learned that the only one
I could depend on to fight for me
Is me
So Bully
I better understand lives like yours now
So I’ll dedicate this life of mine
To let the children know they are safe
And there are more of their kind than yours
And our job won’t be done
Until the last child tells a bully
You will leave me alone
I am no longer afraid of you
There are people here that understand me
And will protect me if you continue
So I refuse to run!
Look out world here I come!
See I better understand live like yours now
And it’s time
You better understood
Lives
Like
Mine…
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