They Simply Do They
They tell me to listen.
They tell me to be quite.
But I feel like an outcast.
Especially when I listen
To what they tend to say.
People treat me less than more.
People do not understand me.
More or less, I get ignored; by all.
In the middle of a conversation,
They just walk away, unannounced . . .
Now I am beginning to reflect negative actions.
Myself
I too, have been rolling my ankles over you as of late.
What is?
What is it?
What is it that you want me to be?
Who are you?
We are.
We just are who we are.
We do us
Just
They do us too.
They preach about good grades and stress on how import is school.
I tend not to listen;
Especially to (the) rules.
Matter fact,
I break the rules.
Because the rules break me.
We close our lips and sit in silence.
It is our place to be.
We accept silence.
I follow you and we become us.
Me and you
And you
And
me...
Meanwhile,
They remain them.
And
They are better than us.
What about us?
We
are
afraid.
Afraid of their own shadows.
Scared of our weakness;
Traits that we allow ourselves to battle—We are afraid of them...
Only if,
Only if I allow you how!
It’s us and it is them.
It is you and it is I.
They are them and you are I.
Together we still become us.
To hell with them and forget whatever they say...
They are not us.
We are not them.
We are only as weak as we allow them to make us.
Fear is what they have against us.
They are not us.
Therefore,
We are not them.
Fear keeps us weak and gives them the upper hand.
Control is distributed meticulously for us/by us all.
To us...
From Them,
Perception is molded to form normality—
Acceptance ignorantly agrees—
Bathing in delusions ...
Peace be with you,
Sincerely, I...
They do not speak,
With us.
They simply take,
From us.
We allow it how so;
To be what it may.
So it is what it is.
At least that’s what they say.
They tell us to listen.
Then we sit and we stay.
Quietly listening for a much brighter way,
While we simply do us,
And they simply do they.
10-24-2017
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