You Want Things To Change

Well, So You Say… (A Poem)

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You want things to change
To be new
Well
So you say.

Everyone holds
A piece of your puzzle
The one

You

Want to solve?

Every neighbor
Holds a part of your power

Is
A part of your power

Yet you work so hard
To leave me trapped within
Myself
To hate myself
To traumatize?

Because you suppose
Someone supposed
That’s how you’re
Supposed
To make a world
Where everyone does
As they’re supposed?

Why would I
Share your piece then?
Why would anyone?
And when you have
What you want
How even can I?

Can I know
I’ve shared your piece
Well
Not poorly
Terribly
Shamefully
Stupidly…