Here’s what I wrote:
I tried to break the social norms I tried
I tried but they wouldn’t let me they said
That I am here and they said
That I should be like so
And they thought
That they were saving me
But I
Have let my brothers down
I tried to be myself
I tried
I tried so hard but they simply wouldn’t have it
They said here’s a photo of you
Twenty years from now
Now be that person
I thought
Maybe I want to be myself
And they heard me think and made me say
That I will not
They claimed
That theirs is the way
That before them there were idiots
And we won’t be the same
And that life led up to that one moment
And beyond it there’s no change
They thought
That there is no change
They said
There won’t be change
And they’d be right
But I tried
I swear I tried
And they wouldn’t let me
They said that my name is disgrace
They said that to my face
And ever since I was a child of the Earth they made me a child of my race
Their race
And they said to change would be a sin
And that life is a book that only they have read
And they said that on my fingertips are stories only they can read
They said that only they could read
And I couldn’t say otherwise
Because I was illiterate
But I tried
Oh I swear I tried
To tell them they were wrong
I tried
To break their hold
I tried so hard but they refused
They refused and they wouldn’t let me
And everyday the sun would rise
And they thought that they made it so
And they could hear its gears and they
Could make it shine
And they
Of all the people could see it glow
And they were right and I was wrong
And the whole world was wrong
And I tried to tell them, to convey
That maybe there are two truths or three
And I tried to show them that maybe we were all wrong
And I tried to tell them that the truth was as malleable as pure gold
And that maybe there was more to their life than they had previously thought
I tried
Oh I swear I tried
But they wouldn’t listen
They wouldn’t
Have it
They refused
And they would say that I am young
And that I will never age
And that humans had the knowledge and that
I am not human
And that
I cannot know because others
Did
And that life is ancient
And that
Greater men have lived
But I would say and I would try to say they might be wrong
And I did
And I tried to talk
I tried to speak
But they wouldn’t let me
They
Were louder
They
Had sharper pens
And they
Had sharper thoughts
And they
Had sharper minds
I tried
I tried to break the social norms
I tried
I tried so hard it broke my spirit
And still they wouldn’t let me
I tried to be different but I guess now
I am just the same
random ramblings 