Why are you looking at me like that?
Why are you looking at me like that?
What?
I’m not effortlessly, flawlessly, eloquent enough?
Or maybe relevant enough?
Like Kendrick, Post, Gucci, Cardi B?
Yeah, you’re right ‘cause honestly
I’d rather be locked up contemplating society
Or morality
Or any place I’d rather be than the center of your ill-natured curiosity.
Why are you looking at me like that?
What?
Is my as not popping out, bent over in your direction
Giving your already oversized erection
more invitation to take advantage of my comprehension?
No?
So tell me…Why the hell are you looking at me like that?
What?
You were into my skinny pretty hourglass
And now you expect me to just get thick fast
“Gain some more weight!”
Until I do, I listen now I’m eating trash
And at last
I’m fat.
Glad?
No ... no I know ... it’s the way I leave my home with pride-filled eyes
Without disguise
Mesmerized by the beauty that lies within everything
From the skies to the tides
Prepared for disaster knowing I’m my own master
Ready to start a brand new chapter of my existence building upon the last page.
Maybe you just simply cannot reason with the fact that if I were moving any faster youmightjustgetpassedor … f o r g o t t e n
Excuse my persistence ,
I’ve just never seen a blind person look at me like that.
You stare and don’t realize that what’s really there
is a glare of something gorgeous, glamourous, glowing
beaming, bright, and beautiful
under the opacity of the smoke you keep blowing up your ass.
Since you’re so preoccupied struggling-
Suffocating through self-spawned smog-
I’ll tell you why, in the Devil’s name, you are looking at me like that.
I’m the daughter of two terrorists
They made the biggest threat possible to you
Bigger than Columbine
Bigger than 9/11
Me
I will not be told I am a slut because of what I wear
Or my messy hair
Or – oh dear Lord- you can almost see the rim of my underwear
Worst of all, I dare to make love to make love to a man whom I have not married but love we share
I will not be told I am weak
Because I have been tweaked-by you .
YOU were the leak in my confidence-
a breach, making me a freak
and a coward to speech.
that’s alright because I reek of sweet desire for more
As there are better things to seek
Than your powers that be
I will not be told I am weak
Because of the depression YOUR oppression causes me to feel
As it presses on my heart
And my mind
And my body
And my soul
Until I feel I might never make it to Old
When truly this “weakness”
Is my strength I use
To push your 666 ton load of hardship off of me
So look at me.
I imagine you are considering you never stop.
Let’s have a staring contest.
Look at me
With your blank empty-handed glare
And I’ll serve it right back with a piercing daggering stare
But here’s something I really hope you know
Really soon you better start to grow
Because when I cut with these daggers it hurts the worst
And heads up: I’m starting with your bullshit first.