Respect

none among those people who know me has given me respect 
but the ones that know me not bow before me
so my mind tells me to stick close to those people that know me not
but i'll be doomed if i do so
because the ones that offer me no respect are the ones who would
love me to death
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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