Inner Voice and Outside World
I apologize(Her inner voice)
Look at her...
Look at the way she walks...
Look how she acts as if...
No wait I wasn't born into this world to please your eyes
If you don't wanna look close them
I don't wake up every morning thinking of what you'll say ,i mean murmmer because you don't have the breathe to say it to my face
You talk about sisterhood yet you don't even know what it's like to be called trash in a world of glitters
You talk about empowerment yet you are the walking contradiction of criticism
So explain to me what is it that you know?
What is it that you know besides walking your suicidal thoughts around and flashing them around as happiness
What is it that you know besides spreading your legs to feel whole again
What is it, what is it, what is it?
See I clearly point out and tell you everything that's wrong with you but see I'll become like you
Everything I aspire not to be
Because see the difference between me and you
Is that I was able to write down what I don't like about you
It doesn't affect my daily life but it does affect the society I've grown fond of
It affects me because you seem to have become a meaningless role model
You have told girls to become comfortable in the skin that never belonged to them
You've turned your friends into you so you could use them as a reflection or a mirror of yourself
You don't like me because I remind you of who you want to be
But can never be
~Low-Key Poet??
-Sihle Simelane
Copyright © Sihle Simelane | Year Posted 2018
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