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What are you gonna do?

Hit me?

By Alys Farley-PineauPublished 5 years ago 2 min read
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what are you gonna do? hit me?

go ahead, hit me. make me bleed. i know you want to.

i know you see red instead of seeing me because you so awfully can't bear to see me for me, you wish i was dead.

and because of you, because of people like you, i do too.

i wish i was dead but yet i don't because i know that you put that message in my head.

i wish i could just be me for me but i guess we're not there yet.

because people like you assume they know everything about people like me without us ever having met.

you haven't met me, you don't know me, and yet you judge me.

and you're quick to do so.

you leave me with nowhere to go, and you're happy things get to be like this because it's all you know.

but what about the day i stand up and say no?

what about the day i wake up and realize i deserve more than your narrow-minded hatred?

what about the day i finally recognize and yell off rooftops that i'd rather die being myself than to live persecuted into what you'd rather i be?

what about the day i eventually understand the notion of being happy without your approval?

what about the day i, in spite of all your insults and foul stares, envision a future i dare to see joyful and soothingly free of folks like you?

what about the day my mind ultimately gets past people by the likes of you and wanders freely into a peaceful and proud world?

the day i learn my pride is what thankfully discerns me from you.

the day i gather the strength to wholly embrace it.

what are you gonna do then, huh?

hit me?

i'd like to see you try.

slam poetry
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About the Creator

Alys Farley-Pineau

i write about things i wish i could scream out into the universe, but it rarely listens, so i hope you will...

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