They say speak your truth,
but only...
only if it doesn’t make others uncomfortable.
Can't smile it away.
They say speak up,
but only...
only if you aren’t too loud.
They say walk proudly and tall,
but only...
only if you don’t attract too much attention.
Can't smile it away.
Though I am tired...
Tired of listening to their empty advice.
You can change for so many people...
you no longer recognize yourself...
until there is nothing left of your true form.
Can't smile it away.
The truth of the prejudices that still exist,
the harmful biases,
the injustices which live in our world,
are not erased, simply...
simply because some choose to ignore them.
Can't smile it away.
The misogyny which exists in our world,
cannot be tucked under the rug,
it can’t be smiled away.
These sentiments aren't meant to bring joy,
these words are not fragile,
these words are not beautiful,
this is just me,
speaking about the truth,
and not feeling ashamed to speak it.
Can't smile it away.
There are still far too many places...
places where women must fear...
fear to walk down their own street,
ever watchful of the hands...
hands of those who feel...
feel their bodies are not their own,
because they are women,
because of their gender.
Can't smile it away.
There are still far too many who do not realize,
that many generations of slavery and oppression,
have left their mark on current generations,
and that hate still lives.
Can’t smile it away.
There are still far too many prejudices which poison the minds,
of those who fear...
fear a religion foreign to their own,
and too many wars are still waged,
in the name of religion.
And when does it end?
You can’t smile it away.

-Rhia Clay

To me, you're such a wonder ~ ~
A fresh winter rain in the middle of summer

You console me when my soul breaks
An antidote for the wounds of my heart

Never leave my side and never go away
Till I assure you and said that "I'm fine"

You give me hugs and kisses
Whenever I feel lonely and afraid

Like sunlight covering my whole body
Your warmth is everything I've ever craved

Your kisses never disappoint me
Like a daydream, like a famous movie

Yet a tragedy of another story ~

Time is limited whenever I'm with you
You said you can't be with me —

And I knew from the first page that
There's an invisible wall between us

A dimension that separates us apart ~

Wishing it will crack someday somehow
If happens, I will run into your world blithely

Embracing you with all my heart and
Saying, "Take me...I'm all yours"

I wonder if you will feel the same way ~ ~

Like a teenage girl, my heart bumps
I found myself blushing at the thought of it

But that's not going to happen —
All is just a wish never going to be fulfilled

Cause you never knew my existence ~
Cause you never existed in my world ~

You're just a gift I belong in a split second

From a fabricated universe ~
From a fictitious world ~

Like a solar eclipse, like a blue moon
You left me alone when the story ended

Only appeared in my sophistication
Never showed up in my world

Why is it so hard to meet you?
Is it wrong of me to yearn for your touch?

If I could ever turn back time,
I wish I had not met you at all

You filled my mind with lust and desires
My heart with passion, my soul with love

Eventually left me behind with vestiges of pain

And I despise the fact that you're
Just a character that only existed 

In a world that I'll never going to reach ~~~

With the coming of the spring, i see your flower bloom.
Would that I cut off the leaves and do harm to you.

He doesn't hear me right now.
Too busy playing games,
The ones more entertaining than me.
He doesn't look at me,
Doesn't speak, doesn't listen, doesn't care.

I know I am useless,
He drilled it into me from day one.
My words mean nothing to him.
I have stupid hobbies, stupid wants.
Nothing about me is worthy of him.

I look down at myself.
I know what gets his attention,
My dignity drops along with my pants.
He looks at me for the first time in days.
I am finally spoken to.

His words slice me.
He calls me what I am: disgusting,
Desperate, useless, horrible.
But most importantly: I am his.
I am nothing without his approval.

But at the same time he worships me.
The only approval I've gotten,
Only when I am exposed in front of him.
My only worth is my body parts,
The ones I so desperately hate.

He does what he wants,
I have no choice but to let him.
I have no one else who sees me.
Even if he only sees me for what I am;
a tool for his enjoyment.

It's raining outside right now. It's raining.
It's beating down the dust on silent pavements.
I waited you to come the day before.
Today I've realized it was bedevilment.

I've realized it when I saw your smile
In raindrops, flowing down the window,
Your pretty eye wrinkles, so tremulous and soft,
And you in whole, so false and so ridiculous.

Waiting for you, alas, is not my lot.
No yesterday or next day, and no later.
I hate the rain today! I really hate the rain!
There's so much pain in it. I stop to be a waiter.

To be loved is not a virtue
To be hated is not a sin