they are scrabbling around to be the best
to signal their greatness
hoping we will not notice
the heap of their own fake mess

so when did finding s voice –
just become about exerting power
when all this change –
should such division continue to flower?

i seem to have accumulated labels –
that dictate who i am
i have been everything you have
i have been everything you love

it is true
on that diet that you chew
self esteem
has fallen through
weight another risk
that cannot be weighed

it is good to have a voice,
when once it was so repressed
yet now, it is without recourse
and it is good, is it not
to tell your own story