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They Controlled You

September 22, 2013
By BBELL PLATINUM, Atlanta, Georgia
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"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; WISDOM is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."

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Color in the lines
Paint your room blue
No dancing, singing, acting
It’s football for you
Comment on all girls
Find the type you like
Make your own choices?
Who says you have the right?
When they handed you a baseball,
When they made you swing the bat
When they planted dreams of quarterbacks
Filled your head with this and that
Do you think you had a voice?
Did you make your own choice?

No.

From the moment you were born,
You were given a name, a life,
It’s all a game
If you don’t make the rules, then who

Now, “be yourself,” they say,
“like you for you”
Then punish you for being different
The perfect person you want to

Think you have a preference?
A point of view?
From the beginning,
They controlled you

© Vanessa M., Glendale, AZ

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