To see me as
The world has
Painted me upon a wall
To quick to say
This is how
The world hears me
And the words I speak
Too quick to taste
The bitterness
The world has carved me into:
Eat what you have made me
Paint me
Judge me
Say what you will say
And taste the bitterness
Burning upon your tongue.
Put me into a corner
That is the furtherest away
And watch me rebel
Taking you with me
Reaching out
I will pull down the wall
The world
Has placed around me
I will blaze
And bring this world
To its collective knees:
Watch me as I rage
Paint me
Judge me
Say what you will say
And taste the bitterness
Burning upon your tongue
Let me be
And watch with awe
As I take what you see
And turn it upside down
Don’t paint me
Into what you
Want me to be
I am me, not you
I can be many things
But I will only be
What I want:
What I paint myself to be
Paint me
Judge me
Say what you will say
And taste the sweetness
Of rebellion and delight.
Paint Me by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License. Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com.
1 comment:
I really like the sense of independence and defiance, and the refusal to be bound or defined by the perception of others. The spirit of the poem is something that's always going to be appealing to me. The downside is that I can't pull back enough from the "Paint Me" to offer any intelligent comment on how I found the technique or structure worked for me.
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