I used to say I’d be nothing like him A mama’s girl, fierce and fearless But there is fear. I am afraid of what I feel Of the anger that swells Of my inability to stop the tide Of the time my mother and I fought And she whispered you’re just like your father I am afraid of evolution. A slow process That can change a harmless thing Into something else entirely I don’t want to be that something But in my head a voice tells me You can’t deny your roots And by roots I mean a grave That dug itself into the earth when I was born And waits for me still When will I become your sickness An emotional minefield where no one walks A sadness that makes my feet drag I refuse to become the person I fear Because although evolution cannot be stopped I am the mutation. And I will not become the man who brought me here.