What was it that they said was so important?
They said
That I had a choice
That it was all up to me
That, to them,
I was the beauty queen
and they were my kings
They told me
To use my voice
To never be deceived
To never listen
To all those people who treated me less than I deserved
To all those people who thought they were better than I was
To all my inner demons
To those who gave me nothing but the worst
They told me
Honey, I know you're good
To me, you're *better that the best
Everything you are speaks perfect
You speak innocence
Something so surprisingly rare
An aberrant everyone wants to consume
as food for their tainted souls
And I will be there
When you come home beaten
By whatever monster you've faced
I will be there
But then they said
You've got to pick this and that
exactly those two and in exactly that order
No questions, you just have to
Some decisions in your life
are just not made by you
And, Honey, you can't ***** this up
This is important and it's going to help you
In the near future
Naturally, I got confused
Who can actually be trusted with words?
Which part of this generation
Do we get
Where we can actually
get to speak for ourselves?
When will I ever get to choose what makes me happy?