Richard Nnoli Poet Epic

They Don'T Understand

They don't understand
I ask them to allow me live
Still they pollute my space
With their ignorance
Forcing me to be who 
Am not meant to be 
Was the friendship 
They desire from my soul
Is obvious they forgot 
I have my mind 
And that is not for trade

They don't understand
Cos they wish to see 
Me behave 
They way they think 
They border my personality
Only for me to be convinced
Into a life they never suit 
My soul 
So sad am judge just 
For how I look 
Not by the content
I bear 
So when I write this way 
Is very obvious still 
They don't understand 

They don't understand
Why I refuse to change
They want me different
But I want to perceive
My self by my self 
What else do they want 
I wish I could gave that 
Very thing they wish
But I can't trade my destiny
To lesser than what it deserved
I wonder how my life must 
Be changed 
When I am not ready 
To walk another mans way 
If I have my way 
Why will I change 
So simple as this 
Yet it is so difficult 
For them to understand
Cos till now despite my 
The knowledge I perceived
From  them yet and still
I don't understand why 
They don't understand

They don't understand
They don't look at the world 
They ignored what reality says
Yet they want to change me 
They can always talk about 
Our problems 
They know it but it not 
A problem to them 
If they benefits from power 
Where will their chance of 
Change come from 
So when I rebel against
Injustice 
I wonder why am misunderstood
I wonder yet and still why 
They don't understand

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