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UNTAMEDelegance
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since 2009-05-30
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0 posted 2009-10-19 12:02 PM


"You sounded exactly like a robot
when you said that."
She said to me.
Of course!
What do you think I am?

Do you honestly think that I
am free
to make my own choices?

"Is is society?"  They sometimes ask.
Of course not!
They have no hold on me.
I couldn't give a rip
what name or stereotype
society give me to explain me.
In my heart I know that
I am beyond explaining.

But I can't let them,
my parents,
know that I know this.
So I become a robot.

What do you think I am?
My parents will never let me choose.
They will never let me
be free.

I have no right to be myself,
according to them.
And then they complain,
because people tell them
I have no
individuality.

Well, what did they expect?
When I never have the chance
to show the real me,
how can I find out
who that is?

"You sounded exactly like a robot."
What else?
What else could I learn
to be?
When I get in trouble if ever
I do things my own way,
I have to be
a robot.

I have to,
to save my own skin;
to save my own soul;
to save anything
that might possibly be left
of the real me;

The living, breathing,
thinking, alive
me.

I've only ever learned
to do everything like
a robot.

Every single action
planned;
careful;
methodical...
Mechanical.

"You sounded exactly like a robot."
Of course!
What else could I learn to be
when anything else
is scorned.

What else could I be?

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nehematala
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since 2009-05-21
Posts 129

1 posted 2009-10-21 04:40 PM


I love this but you are not a robot girl you are anything but...

Loves
Michy

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