"Who Are You?"
John
Lyon@Blow Middle School
City of St. Louis, MO
John Lyon@Blow Middle School St. Louis, Missouri "Who Are You?" "Poetry on Their Terms, Winners of The 2013 7GP 7th Grade Poetry Contest" is an event and poetry anthology sponsored by The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation (7GP).
Who are you to tell me how to be me?
How are you going to tell me to be me
you don’t know how I feel
you say you know but you don’t
Who are you to tell me how to be me?
you haven’t seen what I’ve seen, felt what I feel
Who are you to tell me how to be me?
you have no relation to what has happened to me and my family
Who are you to tell me how to act?
you don’t know my life and how I live it
Who are you to tell me how to act?
saying that I need to take anger out of the picture
Who are you to tell me how to feel?
When I feel unloved and left out…
who are you?