Dear Heart,
I’d like to file a formal complaint
It seems that your an obsessive overachiever
That you take your job a little to seriously
Dear Heart,
Please stop breaking yourself into a million little pieces-
Because you fall in love with ideas and hypotheticals
Because you color people before they can show you their true aura
Dear Heart,
Why
Why do you find every crumbling transparent excuse for the world
But somehow you make yourself bleed
Why can’t you put up a wall against the hailing obscenities
Why can’t you knock down that wall for a genuine whisper
Dear Heart,
You were supposed to be a road map to happiness
But it seems I’m lost somewhere between I love you and I miss you
You are supposed to find contentment in success and lessons in failures
But you grasp for the next and the regret
Dear Heart,
I know your tired and broken
But Brain is telling me to tell you to stop crying
Dear Heart,
I’m sorry I yelled at you
I’m sorry I thought a bandaid was enough to fix you
Dear Heart,
I know your Shattered-
But I promise I won’t lose the pieces
I've noticed lately, more spice, more views
What in the world has come over youse
Have you no shame
Where's the class you proclaim
It's all about popularity so I'll continue this ruse
(This is NOT a formal complaint! LOL)
I don't know racism
but I do know
that woman
screaming
in my face
well, I didn't stand for that
even if I had to grab
the neighbor's kid
to translate for me
that woman
looking down
on my Chinese face
I had Julia write
a Formal Complaint
the principal agreed
and did nothing
a weak woman
just imagine if I knew english
the hardest thing
was letting them walk on us
timid and quiet Chinese
hah!
no Chinese in government
no social services
no translators
I came too early
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