I am free

Make it easy on us

Nod your head and stay quiet

Make it easy on us

Fake a smile

Tell us all the good things

And maybe we’ll stay awhile

With their buttoned up shirt

And constricted breath

Their combed over hair

And prozac

Make it easy on us

They said.

My whole life searching for the meaning of my name

Trying to fit in,

in some sort of way

Cuz god damn,

Seems like they got it hard enough

I’d love to make it easy on them,

Swim in their delusional dreams

And save their souls

One

Lie

At a time

But my searching lead me to believe

That it wasn’t lies they needed

But a voice that howled

A voice that sang her sweet soul song

Feet that roamed,

Searching for the meaning

A meaning that became so strong

Silence could still speak.

So I did.

I listened to the wind

I listened to the water,

The trees,

The stars.

They taught me about being

I stopped listening to the lost souls crying for sanction

In their easy answers

And empty eyes

And I decided to follow

The beat of my own drum,

And show them

What it really means to move

Like a song

To dance with the wind

And really fucking live

Its easy I said,

But it doesn’t come from a book you’ve read.

I understand,

My radical self expression

Fucks with your head

Its not always easy to understand

Because it pushes up against the idea

That

We

All

Have

To

Agree

Nobody is like you

And nobody is like me

Finding magic

In the way we breath

Moving like a song,

A song,

That only I can sing.

I am free

So you can be.