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Brett Palmero Nov 2016
The skin I have is dark
And that's all most see
I walk around with a mark
That says I can never just be
I feel like a different breed
My freedom never guaranteed

People are born different
Their love may be unique
Sadly some aren't considerate
And treat them like a freak
They think they're some ****
My freedom never guaranteed

I started with nothing
Poverty knocking at my door
If I were to wish for something
It wouldn't be to have more
But to never have to need
My freedom never guarenteed

All of this makes me different
Yet it makes me who I am
I'd rather a societal aberrant
Than part of a program
To be free is to concede
So I'd rather be me than be freed
Tyree / Belle
I've only dealt with race discrimination. Poverty and ****** discrimination are beyond me, so I hope I accurately represented them.
Astral Oct 2016
You’re existence is a mere caricature to the ones who call you sick

The ones that call you diseased, that call you poisoned

The one that ruining this wholesome way of American life

With food made of slaughtered clones, and a society more obsessed with a new phone then a peoples safety

Yes, you are the one for all this discourse

You’re conversion is the only salvation

To fix this “wholesome” American national
A poem written as a sort of reaction to those that say certain groups or identities are the reason for the downfall of the US, it's quite sad really, the state we are in
Megan Kate Oct 2016
sometimes I think to myself

maybe he would like me more if…

my thighs didn’t rumble like thunder with each stride

maybe he would like me more if…

I decided to swallow my pride

maybe he would like me more if…

I didn’t speak my mind

maybe he would like me more if…

my tummy was tight and my hips were wide

maybe he would like me more if…

instead of wearing sweatpants and sweaters in winter I wore jeans and cardigans

maybe he would like me more if…

instead of last years shorts and a baggy tee in summer I wore a flowing dress

maybe he would like me more if…

my voice was high and smooth

maybe he would like me more if…

I held my tongue once in a while

maybe he would like me more if…

my grin wasn’t such a toothy smile

maybe he would like me more if…

I was tall enough to reach the cupboard above the kitchen sink

maybe he would like me more if…

I didn’t take so long to think

maybe he would like me more if…

I listened to the popular type of music

maybe he would like me more if…

my dark brown hair was blonde

maybe he would like me more if…

my legs and arms didn’t have any hair

maybe he would like me more if…

I lived my life without a care

maybe he would like me more if…

my skin was perfectly tan or perfectly fair

maybe he would like me more if…

sarcasm easily flowed off my tongue

maybe he would like me more if…

he was actually the one



but as I remember this all and reflect
I look over this list
and it's all the things she loves me for
I now know that she will love me more
Tamara Fraser Sep 2016
Who do I give my love to?
Can I return home? To something
lost, found, lost.
Myself, the barren cage,
Do you ever stop and breathe
in where I place your love
now?

Now. *** is so commercialised, objectified, underrated and understated;
fearful and lust-driven;
you want me to give it
to you so badly ,
I don’t even get to quote
‘we made love’
anymore.

Being close with you has taken on
the same meaning
as talking
on the phone
with you for an hour.
Sofia Sep 2016
dear adam,
you were my first love
i'm not sure if you loved me
as much as i loved you
but God did i love you
the world began with us
isn't that amazing?
even in the crevices of our  
makeshift beds weaved out
of lazy limbs and hazy intentions
even if i felt your heart didn't beat
for flesh such as mine
i loved you i loved you i love you
maybe i'm sorry i wasn't enough
but i know it wasn't me
i know you wished the world
didn't begin with a boy and a girl
being told to love
as if love was easy
i'm sorry i knew that maybe
you wished there was a choice
i knew that you wanted more than
soft sighs and long hair
maybe you wanted someone
who fit you the way your own gods told you
your own gods being your anatomy
your every nerve telling you
this isn't right
this isn't the natural order of things
i'm sorry i didn't pray hard enough
i was happy to have a part of you
even if that part included your dreams
of someone like you
of someone much different than i
we will never know now
and that's the saddest part
even when sacred texts chronicle us
as being an eternal pair
that brought paradise to flames
i do not regret following you into hell
i would bite into the universe
again and again and again
if it meant for the freedom
that came along with shame
if it meant that the world could be
what you wanted it to be
i would navigate every circle of hell
i would find every vision of the devil
if it meant you could love who you were meant to love
i love you adam
the world began with us
and maybe that's why the world is so scattered
two scattered souls don't make for a very good world
now our children run around loving and hurting
just as we did
but you lived a good life and you knew that
you were always the good one
i was always the one who wanted to be more
and you always forgave me for that
we were a strange love - you and i
so perhaps let us forgive ourselves
after all
we are only dirt breathed by God
we had no say in our genesis
that isn't going to change now
love and everything else,
eve
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