Society for me

Society for me

Is a long scroll of lies

Number 1, Starting rumors and setting standards

That only a handful of people happy

Because those handful of people made it

Society says that everyone should be happy

That everyone should be in harmony

War brings peace

What would happen if everyone

Could be themselves?

And i do understand

That could never happen thats impossible

Of course it is!

Most everyone who is themselves is doing it

For attention

“Oh, no i just love being myself i dont care what everyone thinks”

You do

Because “being yourself” makes you popular

So “Being yourself” turns into doing what everyone else does

Because thats the thing now

The standard is the people

Who are better than everyone else

The handful of people society accepts

Are the the people who CAN be themselves

Because they are what set the standards

And whoever isn’t in that handful 

Gets mocked for not being themselves

And mocked for being themselves

So you have to suffer

If you're not apart of that handful

Number 2, social numbers

In my mind, people are either

Pink yellow and baby blue,

Dark red and navy, 

Or brown and blue

The pink and yellow are seen in movies as

Brats, pickme’s, and mean girls

Dark red and navy are the bad kids, 

In detention and always in trouble with the teachers

Brown and blue are the in between

Maybe you think 

“Oh, brown and blue must be the easiest”

“They can do whatever they want to keep the same way”

No

Its the hardest

You have to always be disappointed in yourself 

Because you’re not navy or pink

You’re average

Nobody likes average

Navy and pink are the easiest

They already have what they are decided

Their friend groups say everything

They dont have to

Brown and blue have to say things

They are either right or wrong

But always wrong compared to pink and navy

Before this time

I didn’t think of brown and blue

It was only navy or pink

Which is society’s thinking

Either belong of be ridiculed

Because thats how it works here

Why can’t people be brown and pink?

Or Navy and yellow?

Because society said so 

And we always follow what they say

Number 3, gender stereotypes

Again with society

They say a girl should have a lover

Even the kids at my school

Strive

To have a parter

Even if they last for three days

Society makes it seem popular and the “thing”

To have a boyfriend or girlfriend at eleven years old

Even if you don’t want one

You cant be friends with someone of the other gender

Unheard of

Rumors start

Rumors are the bane of my existence

So what we like to talk on the bus?

You have to like a boy

You can’t just enjoy their company

Is what society thinks

You have to have at least two people like you

Or else your ugly

Or fat

And because of that rule that society posted

Millions of girls think that theyre ugly and fat

Because if boys don’t like you it means you arent appealing

You arent enough

Society never lets you be enough

Ever

Unless you are apart of that handful

That spoiled gifted lucky handful

Number 4, slavery isn’t a thing in the us anymore

But racism and sexism is

Ladies from all over the nation being taunted

For their bodies, just because its different

Than the “superior” gender,  men

But who made those men?

We did!

With pain and sweat and tears

And yet with that strength, added

With the strength it takes to hear those things

About our gender

We are expected to clean

And only have the children

If only they knew what we could do