No F*cking Filters

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Interesting how there's no f*cking filters this time.
Filters block out all the dirt,
all the crude humor,
all the rawness of people and what they feel.
But it's not stopping me this time!
 
I like sex (like most other humans),
I like surviving, 
and I love love.
 
Now, to most I'm crazy for only thinking of those things when thinking of my future.
I don't want a big fancy house,
I don't want a huge amount of money,
I honestly don't care for all that when I have someone who cares for me and we're thriving.
So that's how I am in terms of forward thinking.
 
Right now, I hate school
I hate having so many responsibilities, 
I hate living with my parents.
Now, I'm really crazy for thinking that (to most people).
 
I think this way though because I'm a black youth in America tries to think differently from my parents.
I like sex because I believe it's a natural instinct to want to have sex,
I like surviving because I want to see what is out in the world,
I love love, only because I don't know how it feels to truly be loved.
 
Without a filter, I'm the most sexual person ever,
I'm the person that people go to for sexual advice.
Without a filter, I'm a girl with no eyelashes or eyebrows,
I'm one of the very small percent of people in the world who have Trichotillomania (a hair pulling mental disorder).
Without a filter, all I really try to do is make myself happy in any way that I can.
 
Without a filter, I'm a 5 foot 4 inch tall black girl
with no eyelashes or eyebrows,
with a meaningful tattoo on my back, a belly button piercing,
and discounted Ray Ban perscription glasses
just trying to find something more meaningful in life than money.
This poem is about: 
Me

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