When I step out, I sense you
I feel the weight of your eyes following me
I hear the whispered thoughts even if you don’t scream them
And if you do, there is a sudden break in my calm
All at once I become high alert
Heart thumping up to my brain
Thoughts running for the nearest exit
I was trained by the likes of you to fear
To learn I was always unsafe
Can’t look too calm or I attract attention
Can’t look too certain or I attract your hate
Every day since I was born a girl
It’s been a boot camp for survival
Don’t wear that
Don’t talk back
Don’t think for a second we don’t own you
Today as I walked home I wanted to scream
Not for fear, but disgust
Ive grown tired of feeling your breath on my neck
Knowing no matter how many me too’s I hear you sit there in power
I am angry
Not in the quiet, enough is enough way
As in the beast inside me is raging to attack
No longer fall in line with what I’ve been taught
I wanted to feel that I can wake fear in you
Maybe you’d turn your eyes away then
Avoid crossing my path
Know that one false move and you’d be in my line of attention
But I am not that person
I slay monsters like you
I will join the chorus until you can’t hear your own thoughts
Until you know deep in your bones that we are your problem
And we slay monsters left and right
We know too well how you work
So yes, you are our victims now
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