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I'M NOT A DANGER.


You paint me with danger

To resemble the hated terrorist

With nothing but terror

Inside their thalamus

That drives them into cannibalism

That endured their darkened mindsets

Not knowing they'll also be savaged

 

You furnished my home with darkness

Like a bottomless abyz

That is emptying into fogs

Making the whole world pry

And called at me with petty

Because I'm never welcome

Anywhere in this world

 

You've robbed me of my name

Undress me off my dignity

And turned me from humane

Into a distinct creation

Making me hated, unloved, unwanted

You pinched my name called me

By my status because that

Is  the gown you've choosen 

To graduate me into.

 

You washed me with blood

And expect me to cry blood

When I sweat colourless liquid

Just like you do under the sky

Even the ground shake

When I stepped on it

And the earth on my palms

Shrinks with fear however

Motherly I choose to be

Because you told them

That I'm danger instead of human

 

Your children took to their heels

And hide their hands behind their back

When they meet me

You told them I spread

Bomshells instead of greetings

And so they are scared of 

Meeting grenades instead of hellos

And they'll spread it down 

To the next generation at dawn

 

You killed me along time ago

You made me lonely in despair

How I wish you put on my shoes

And the ground magma under

Take my glasses and see the earth

The way I see it in ocular

I've name just like you

You're a citizen and I an asylum

Maybe that is the difference 

But we are all humans

I'm not a danger

 

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