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Why Can’t We Just Be Human


People get sorted before they’re seen, shaped by assumptions that cut too clean, treated like categories, not like a being why can’t we just be human. Lines get drawn where they don’t belong, turned into rules like “right” and “wrong,” acting like difference is something to wrong why can’t we just be human. People get treated like shapes to compare, stacked up in lists like anyone cares, stripped of their depth as if that’s fair why can’t we just be human. Maybe the world got too used to the game, calling it normal, pretending it’s tame, forgetting that everyone hurts just the same why can’t we just be human.
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Maya D. Suram

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Blends personal experience of categorization with broader philosophical critique of social sorting systems.

SparseMeasureDense

Multiple related ideas per stanza; steady pacing with repetition creates moderate density.

DarkSentimentBright

Predominantly frustrated and critical tone; refrain expresses longing but overall emotional valence is negative.

StillEnergyExplosive

Steady, deliberate voice with insistent repetition and rhetorical questions; not explosive but sustained intensity.

MicroLengthEpic

16 lines total; within the 16-30 range.

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Moderate use of metaphor (categories as shapes, rules as lines) balanced by direct declarative statements.

LyricVoiceDramatic

Primarily lyric internal voice with strong first-person collective 'we'; minimal narrative or dramatic personas.

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