What The Heck Are You Talking About? Look At YourselfA Poem by Arly Parent
I see through you
I can tell when you're bullshitting I can tell when you're lying through your teeth I can tell when you speak about something you know nothing about when you're trying to fit in and that Your fitting in ...is being special to us being above with all looking up. I can tell You try too hard You smile too hard You laugh too hard You Tell too hard Of your stories in the barrio your life on the streets your ever-working single mother your brother in the hood and a life without peace. You ring hollow like the clanking of a bell with a piece of felt taped inside muffling the story it would tell. So keep telling me of your problems and ignore the truth of life that you lived with mom and dad in a home full of life that you never once did struggle or find a need for want till you saw the others struggle saw substance come from strife And so you came to be this a copy of that life a mere facsimile homunculi a child in the shape of a man naive and ignorant of the forge of adversity and the blessing of a good life already had
© 2012 Arly Parent |
Stats
278 Views
1 Review Added on August 13, 2012 Last Updated on August 13, 2012 Tags: posers, hipsters, self, identity, self-identity, esteem, self-esteem, truth, honor, adversity AuthorArly ParentLantana, FLAboutThere's nothing about me. I play with pauses as well as silence. I write words, assign meanings and junk, and play with a language that might be as much my own as another. I don't know. more..Writing
|