We are not born with hatred swirling around in our skull
It is something that is built within the structures of our environments
This civil war whose bombs wake us up in the morning
and whose grenades disturb our sleep.
We are not born with fatass/faggot/nigger/spic/dyke/slut on our tongues
This is the product of this billboard society that teaches us
to spit daggers rather slip our tongues around and caress
We are not born in fear of the other
It is not genetics that implore us to engage
in the ongoing battles between
fat and skinny
black and white
religious and faithless
straight and curved
Our world is a wasteland
filled with our soulless cardboard cutouts
doing nothing more than occupying space.
We examine our fingertips in search of identity
and are shown skin that has been scrubbed smooth
by the buffers created to stop our minds from
expanding too wide and our dreams from growing too big.
We look to the too-distant stars for directions but must turn to a foreign map
to tell us where home is.
What we are born with is excitement.
With adventure running through our veins.
With eyes the color of flawless wonder
and skin scarred with wisdom.
We were born with longing.
Longing for a great escape.
For rebirth.
May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 at 8:47 PM UTC
We are not born with hatred swirling around in our skull
It is something that is built within the structures of our environments
This civil war whose bombs wake us up in the morning
and whose grenades disturb our sleep.
We are not born with fatass/faggot/nigger/spic/dyke/slut on our tongues
This is the product of this billboard society that teaches us
to spit daggers rather slip our tongues around and caress
We are not born in fear of the other
It is not genetics that implore us to engage
in the ongoing battles between
fat and skinny
black and white
religious and faithless
straight and curved
Our world is a wasteland
filled with our soulless cardboard cutouts
doing nothing more than occupying space.
We examine our fingertips in search of identity
and are shown skin that has been scrubbed smooth
by the buffers created to stop our minds from
expanding too wide and our dreams from growing too big.
We look to the too-distant stars for directions but must turn to a foreign map
to tell us where home is.
What we are born with is excitement.
With adventure running through our veins.
With eyes the color of flawless wonder
and skin scarred with wisdom.
We were born with longing.
Longing for a great escape.
For rebirth.
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