12.26.2013

I.

I just want

And I just need

To feel like

A somebody again

II.

Barely awake

An unexpected ring

An echoing of words

From a man

That’s come to know disappointment

As much as I

I listen try to exhale

But I can’t

Fighting back tears

Trying to make sense

Of what I just heard

III.

What do you mean

I didn’t have to take

That test?

IV.

I love this country

But it is tearing me apart

From the inside out

I have been made to feel

Like my worth is next

To zero

I am there, fully broken

So why do I bother

To keep on fighting?

I am too pissed off and hurt

Because I refuse for my voice

To be silent on election day

I want to sit on a jury

Contribute to the economy

Not pay a fee every ten years

And hold the status

Of a permanent resident

When I have always

Felt like an American Citizen

I refuse to allow

Those people that FAILED

To make me fully theirs

Strip me of the freedoms

I hold dear

Because those people

FAILED to

Dot their i’s and cross their t’s

Those people are the reason

Behind a shattered heart

I could of handled anything

But the reminder of that

I was truly never theirs in the first place

And will never be

I have always known

Felt it in my bones

We were never meant to be

(05.26.2015)