by Robert Agee

Created on: April 25, 2008

I Got To Be Me

I Got To Be Me

Some people think to get a fair shake,
they can't reveal themselves,
they have to be fake.

They crawl on their bellies,
with the other snakes on the ground,
never opening up there real selves,
thinking they wont be wanted around.

I say there's another way,
with no games to play,
no cliques i have to impress,
to allow them to let me stay.

I don't care if they want me,
let them hate.
because I wont live their lies,
every time I come around
I look in their eyes,
and they cant face me.
they just avert and despise,
my very existence,
and hope for it's demise.

But I wont go away,
their game I wont play,
I stay true to myself,
never wandering astray.

Their vanity clouds their judgments,
they just cant see,
no matter what happens,
I am gonna be me.

I could play in their slime,
break my rhythm ,
my rhyme,
but my tolerance of them,
will not give them the time.

No matter how they try,
to run me off,
I shall not flee,
cause no matter what they do,
I can not break,
for I got to be me.

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