Unmistakable

Undeniable
This respect I wear
Unrefuted
Undisputed
As I choose to love myself
Undissenting
As I'm sending my signal
Clearly distinguished from those hesitations left in the middle
Left of the center
Never mix me up with the general
See I specifically live individually
So far away from the majority that what's moral seems unique
And I speak with clarity
I evoke with authority
And while inferior wins popularity
They seek to isolate my integrity
Must I wear the low things
Rock what I can't afford
And drape myself bling
Must I speak foreign English
Lose the concept of verbs and endings
And let an immigrant excel in the language
Must I involve myself in the worldly things
Then blame all my misdoings on growing pains
Do I deny a part of me to become a part of something else
Losing membership to gain rejection
Or do I try to spend my life conforming to all the things they are expecting
Unjustly
Must I be the puppet for societal norms
Mold myself to fit the form
And be an accomplice to what's going on
So I can either plead guilty or fight for my innocence
Testify to the facts and hope that it makes sense
Here I am world condemn me if you will
This soldier trained for battle
This target that won't stand still
Street educated
Institutionally learned
Nothing handed on a silver platter
Everything earned
Unfinished business
Unfinished dreams
Coated in my subconscious' color
Filled with ideas that seem unrealistic
Only to the statistics
And I guess I must have missed that class on pessimism
I guess I was too busy trying to teach the world about true vision
Unsubstantiated by the stereotypes society made
Determined to break the rules and follow only the path I laid
I guess by now I seem conceited
I guess I seem too hard to be defeated
I guess I seem to grounded to be seated
So stubborn to get to the truth of the matters
I make them eat their words
I make them admit to the propaganda
I make them admit that they have an agenda
And we are on it just to be manipulated
And that's how we relate though we're unrelated
Unimpressed
Under duress
But I flip the channels anyway
So I can't hear what the corporations say
Then I won't buy what they're selling
And I won't believe the stories they're telling
And even when they try to mute my yelling
I put it in script
Circulate it
Put it in rotation
Put a period on it
They can't change my sentences
And they can't change my mind in one instance
And this radical for change remains persistent
Forcing them to keeps their lies consistent
Telling women what they should be
Dictating to men on the ideals they should keep
Coin tossing on the results we will reap
Little children playing adult in the game
Adding thug to their name
Adding silicon to their frame
Growing up devoid shame or remorse
They built on the bitterness and marketed on the cold
I finally made the distinction that perfection is only attainable if I set the parameters
If I am the examiner then beauty rests in the eyes of the beholder
I finally made the conclusion that illusion sets precedent
And delusion pays the rent while logic lives on the street
And on those roads I meet realism denied the chance to be real
And it seems what I feel is irrelevant
Seems it only matters what the majority meant
And no matter how much I dissent, minority volume turns down to mute
I finally made the comparison that what I'm wearing gets my foot in the door
And rags never become riches
And that adage is such stitches on a sampler that hangs over the heads of the world
And look at how strong that simple piece of thread is
That has little girls rewriting it in their minds
In their hearts
On their mirrors
Through their actions
Looking for satisfaction externally
I finally made the realization that media stations emit power
That transmitted waves have devoured our little boys and consumed their morals
Objectification for first period
Matriculation of degradation
Societal norms quickly erasing the correct answers
Raising manservants rather than men
How scary it is to know that
How scary it is to see it happening before our eyes
Look at the future's tear filled eyes
Water dried cheeks devoid of speech
And no paper around to alternatively write their objections down
I finally made the step to be different
And dare to be firm in my beliefs
And stand in resilience
Why does it seem so hard for us to uplift the youth?
Why do we hold back the truth?
But push forth the excuses
And if we add to the problems then we truly are useless
I finally met their hopelessness face to face
And it was every gender
Every race
Every shape
Tender age
Just young enough to be molded
But too old to be changed
I finally see that childhood just ain't the same no more
And it's a shame we don't care no more
Grammar lost for intensity
Speaking at the education equivalency
I finally accepted that I am just one person
And trying to take on the whole world by myself ain't working
But I would rather exhaust myself trying to seek solution
I would rather work my fingers to the bones trying to eliminate the pollution
Because in my mind if not me, who then
I don't want to waste time choosing only to lose on my choice
I finally decided that failure is not an option
Remembering I was young once
Remembering how it didn't take much to lose track
And I think back to my deterrence
And then I think maybe it was just my perseverance
Certainly it was influence that told me no matter what "you can do this"
But where is the motivation in this nation
Is it overseas fighting vendettas?
Is it in the mainstream or ghettos?
Is it in the school shootings or the video games?
Is it in the reality shows, the songs we sing, or the rap game?
Or maybe we're to blame
Insert your name here
And we pass our resentment on to our seeds
And we cook that hate into the food we feed them
And we bond them to our own mentality instead of freeing them
Seeing them dwindling down to clones
Unable to be their own
Beings that only regurgitate what they hear
Offspring we begin to fear
Giving birth to future rebellion year after year
And not until it hits us at home will we really care
And then will the world out there sit down and share
Real talk


- Chyrra Greene