To Be Heard Gian Dakari Connor

I spent time thinkin’ ‘bout rhymes

That would open your mind

So this word play

Lets you know how I feel everyday

So you can say your understand the man that I am

I am a man of fire

That fire is desire

A desire to be heard

My words may be obscure

But what I feel is surreal

And the seal that this feel has on me is too strong to break free

Its scary to be what people expect of me

Like being defined by ethnicity

Society is a seal on my creativity

Telling me what I’m supposed to be and it drives me insane

Like a restraint on my heart

I don’t know where this pain ends or starts

But I know it hurts

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