Hey, you’re fat, you’re skinny, you’re black, you’re gay

too tall, too short, too white, too tan; more than anything they’ll ever be.

You can’t  be black without ghetto and baggy pants following your name?

and anything like bro, yo home dawg and all that other slang

too white, you burn called a cracker and so

too white you must be filthy rich, ha, yeah like they know.

maybe a ginger, blonde, brunette

but no one CAN’T make fun of gingers

blame the dumb blonde

or ask brownies to do their math,

or you know…something like that.

Playing sports, I’m a jock

listening to something hardcore you say I’m emo

I love ballet you say I’m a girly girl

wondering about the same sex you say I’m a gay freak

                     and you all stop talking to me

if I want good grades, do my homework you say I’m a nerd

if I wear a skirt you say I’m a preppy

if I live in a better neighborhood than yours you say I’m wealthy.

 well

 I’m done with what you have to say

it’s like…

Operation Me.

it’s you and only you and you get to do what you want to do, to be

who you want to be because you’re you.

to act out on impulses

wear tight clothes too baggy too short too colorful too dark and everything in between

to kiss a girl, to kiss a guy, to kiss a girl and a guy and maybe more

 than once or twice.

to fall in love and out again and again and maybe one two three

 four more times

to play every sport you can think of then take up singing

or wear super dark make up, then nothing at all, then different day

 after day

because you’re you

it’s you and only you, and you get to do what you want to do because

 you’re you

because you don’t have to be one of THEM.

you are you

and you are the only thing you need

friends, clothes, sports, music don’t make you, you make you

make yourself

be yourself

 yourself

yourself into what you can be and that on your sleeve is “me”

I am me and I am not afraid to do what I want to do because of you

because I make me and I am me and me is the only things I’ll ever be so

anywhere

and everywhere

I am always me

so if there is a clan, or something, of anyone else with ME on their

 sleeves, that’s where I want to be.

with all the other me’s.