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I was reading When I realized From this book We aren't What we say We are We are so much more Than numbers Numbers on a scale On a ruler On a tape measure More than numbers On our clothing But that's what Everyone Defines us by They say we are percentages We are only one In seven billion Why should anything Go right We have something Every one in five gets Why should we feel special They say we are standards Like clear skinned Tan Gorgeous And brains don't matter As long as we are Clear skinned Tan And gorgeous They say we are dollar signs That those who are poor Should not even Glance their way And those who are rich Are Always Stuck up And snobby That the brand That costs less to make But is mass produced And more expensive Is better Than the cheap stuff we all wear They say we are the change This world needs But they don't mean it They mean They want us to try But they won't let us get near The power But that's not what we are We aren't numbers We aren't percentages We aren't standards We aren't dollar signs We are stories Passed down from people Who knew What they wanted us to know Like the time My grandma accidentally knocked Her favorite and only doll Into the hole in her outhouse Or the time we all sang As one In a happy melody We are memories From times And lifetimes Past We are stars and planets Distant yet Present Bodies So elusive Thereby so intriguing The only thing We really want Is to fly in stardust And dance in a moonbeam We are dreams That maybe won't come true But will give us the best adventure When we find out How to live them out We are heartbeats That beat at night We are bugs In this garden of life Because without us There would be no point We are flowers That tickle your nose On a warm spring day When you reach down To smell its fragrance We are shoulders To cry on We are roads To walk on We are smiles and laughs We are childhoods We are balloons and bubbles We are winters We are springs We are summers And we are falls We are the heat And we are the cold We are the change We want to see In an upside down world Only we can change We are people on the corner Begging for some coins We are souls Thirsting for reprieve We are hearts Trying to love as much as we can We are sadness And we are joy There are things We can see And things we can't But after everything Every word We speak We are so much more Than what they tell us Day after day We are the world And this world Is ours So take it from someone Who has been invisible her entire life Until they berated the silence Out of her In words That changed to sorrows And hits That turned To beauty Because she can be beautiful In this Crazy Twisted Yet absolutely stunning Life
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Sep 15, 2017
Sep 15, 2017 at 1:06 PM UTC
2:23 AM
I was reading When I realized From this book We aren't What we say We are We are so much more Than numbers Numbers on a scale On a ruler On a tape measure More than numbers On our clothing But that's what Everyone Defines us by They say we are percentages We are only one In seven billion Why should anything Go right We have something Every one in five gets Why should we feel special They say we are standards Like clear skinned Tan Gorgeous And brains don't matter As long as we are Clear skinned Tan And gorgeous They say we are dollar signs That those who are poor Should not even Glance their way And those who are rich Are Always Stuck up And snobby That the brand That costs less to make But is mass produced And more expensive Is better Than the cheap stuff we all wear They say we are the change This world needs But they don't mean it They mean They want us to try But they won't let us get near The power But that's not what we are We aren't numbers We aren't percentages We aren't standards We aren't dollar signs We are stories Passed down from people Who knew What they wanted us to know Like the time My grandma accidentally knocked Her favorite and only doll Into the hole in her outhouse Or the time we all sang As one In a happy melody We are memories From times And lifetimes Past We are stars and planets Distant yet Present Bodies So elusive Thereby so intriguing The only thing We really want Is to fly in stardust And dance in a moonbeam We are dreams That maybe won't come true But will give us the best adventure When we find out How to live them out We are heartbeats That beat at night We are bugs In this garden of life Because without us There would be no point We are flowers That tickle your nose On a warm spring day When you reach down To smell its fragrance We are shoulders To cry on We are roads To walk on We are smiles and laughs We are childhoods We are balloons and bubbles We are winters We are springs We are summers And we are falls We are the heat And we are the cold We are the change We want to see In an upside down world Only we can change We are people on the corner Begging for some coins We are souls Thirsting for reprieve We are hearts Trying to love as much as we can We are sadness And we are joy There are things We can see And things we can't But after everything Every word We speak We are so much more Than what they tell us Day after day We are the world And this world Is ours So take it from someone Who has been invisible her entire life Until they berated the silence Out of her In words That changed to sorrows And hits That turned To beauty Because she can be beautiful In this Crazy Twisted Yet absolutely stunning Life
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Sep 15, 2017
Sep 15, 2017 at 1:06 PM UTC
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