by Ylanne Sorrows
Member since:
September 22, 2007

Who Are You-for all you nonconformists out there

October 08, 2007 01:21 PM EDT
views: 27 | rating: 10/10 (5 votes) | comments: 9

I wrote this poem way back in 2005 but it reflects the spirit of us nonconformists.

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Who are you?

                   

Who are you to tell me where I should go

How I should dress

How I should speak?

 

Who are you to control my every move

How I must dance

How I must walk in the halls?

 

Who are you to make my days

Seem like a foggy mountain

Always there but mystifying?

 

Who are you to control my life

To offer freedom

But to really destroy it?

 

Who are you to claim for me everything

I have ever hoped to be

Just to make my dreams shatter like broken glass?

 

Who are you to offer a hand

When you too

Are in this abyss of Inferiority?

 

Who are you to laugh and say

That it was all a joke

And always was?

 

Who are you to mock me to my face

Whilst you yourself are despised

By the populace, the multitude?

 

Who are you to leap at my throat

When even if you win this fight

We're both still animals?

 

Who are you?

 

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Comments: 9

terri molina Oct 8, 2007, 1:41pm EDT
Strong! Very well done. I've always considered myself a non-conformist so I can relate!
;-)
Ylanne Sorrows Oct 8, 2007, 1:43pm EDT
Yeah me too
Barbara B. Apr 26, 2008, 6:24am EDT
Who am I? I am a child of God, who has given me a purpose
here on Mother Earth and a plan of salvation.
~*~Danyale~*~ N. May 31, 2008, 5:08am EDT
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mary J. Jun 21, 2008, 2:22pm EDT
You remind me by a sort of people whom if you say to them that they violated the laws, they say "Don't you know who am I?!!!"

This is the Human, Ylanne.
mary J. Jun 21, 2008, 2:26pm EDT
I liked it, Ylanne. especially "We're both still animals"... We're both created from one pair of male and female.
Ylanne Sorrows Jun 21, 2008, 3:07pm EDT
Shokran Maryam.
poetrandy R. Aug 5, 2008, 3:46am EDT
WOW! I really feel your thoughts, emotions and statements! I'm one of those non-c's, too!

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