Outside Looking In
Outside Looking In (By: Lakeyia Clark; 4/7/08)
You’re on the outside looking in, so tell me what do you see.
Is it a hardworking, goal-oriented, single mother possibly?
Or is it just another young black female with no direction in life?
Not knowing I’m an overachiever despite my strife.
On the outside looking in, you only see what I show.
But the inside is much different from the outside, in a way you’ll never know.
A mask covering up the outside is what you’re probably thinking.
Or is it a cry out for understanding of a person mistaken?
You don’t see what I see, or know what I know.
You’re on the outside looking in and that’s as far as you’ll ever go.
Copyright © Lakeyia Clark | Year Posted 2009
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