Tuesday, June 14, 2022

To be me

I am me

So let me be 
With my larger than life imperfections
And my tiny little features of redemption
My contradictions 
And my harmonisations
Being all is what I am 
Yet nothing at all for you to identify 
And put into neat boxes 
With yellowed labels
Pasted on an assembly line
Of neat and tidy definitions
I am this also 
And that
Flowing and fluid
The sound of freedom 
Identify not me as your own
Or as the ‘other’ to disown
I do not vie to belong 
Or make you hum my secret song
My song of wonderful dissimilarities 
Cos one note alone does not make a song
That can carry histories and dreams along
Beauty lies not in uniformity 
Or in being what you think is right
Beauty lies in difference 
In sound and in sight 
So let differences be, 
each special and unique
Let voices ring out loud and clear 
And have the space to speak
Show me how brave you are
By gagging not my voice
But by hearing those who are not you 
However different their choice 
Leave me be
To be me