Comparable

I lay in bed far after morning arrives

I miss the cool just to complain of the heat

I take for granted the luck of our lives

as too much rest has me beat

It really depends on the day if I greet

I hesitate a breath of fresh air

while my heart and mind compete

I don't know if a poke I could bear

but I'm far too dazed to care

My energy is somehow bound

as nature remains aware

that I'm too good for their playground

I will dance when love is found

but even if I wanted to act free

I ought to be world-renowned

so they can see how wild I could be

but the pressure is too great not to flee

The weight of conformity has got me down

Sometimes I'm the only one to plea

They don't understand what it feels like to be brown

They don't look like me in this town

I try so hard to get the boys drooling

but when I look in the mirror I frown

This disconnect tends to be ruling

She tells me I'm pretty, but who are you fooling?

I'll never have skin as smooth as yours

My flesh is grossly grueling

and you're escorted out of doors!

You look like the models inside the stores!

You don't have to worry when you fit in school

I try not to cry about actual race wars...

now somehow spray-tans became cool?

I just want someone to treat me like a jewel

Why is it so easy to compare texture?

Now because of you, I avoid the pool

I've always carried this silly conjecture

Completely missing out on life's lecture

I hope the world is forgiving

As you see my own spector,

Isn't it clear that I'm tired of living?

So I lay down my head when the sun is far gone

Trying to forget that a new day will spawn