(12.15.20)
Sinking into myself
Don't speak
They don't listen
Not to you
Your opinion is not considered
Not important
So, don't speak
Save yourself
From trouble
That's all you can cause
With your voice
Speaking your mind
Not tolerated
You must think like them
Act like them
Speak like them
But I don't
None of it
I am different
My own person
Yet I cannot be
Not here, not now
Too dangerous
Words are dangerous
Expressing individual thoughts
Is dangerous
Once they hear you speak
They do not forget
They do not forgive
You are marked
An anomaly
A glitch in the code
Something that
Must be stopped
Corrected
Reprogrammed
A mistake
That's what it is
Just an error
A red flash across a screen
A few strokes of keys
And I can be deleted
But that's not true
Not to me
Fight back
Though it hurts me terribly
After all
That is the purpose of life
To truly live
To express feeling
So, I carry on
And I will continue
Until one day
You start to realize your mistake
In underestimating me
I am here
And I will not leave
Not until
I can speak
My mind
YOU ARE READING
Words of the Soul
PoetryRandom poetry I've written. Thanks to @FZhang for the awesome cover (again!) Most impressive tag: #78 in Thinking