And for all I know
I have a dream to live
A dream more than sheer belief
When the world gives me another dream
Like a running stream
I take another route
To create my dream’s layout
When the world says never
I say never will I say never
I will strive to be me
And not any he or she
When the world says die
I will live to fly
Even if with a stranger for a friend
I will walk and work until my end
When the world says no more
I open my heart’s poetic door
And cry out my soul’s news
In simple rhythms and blues
When the world says have no stance
I speak out my heart and dance
‘Cause I’m breaking away from conventions’ cage
Embracing the truth with no rage
When the world steps on my toes
I smile to confuse my foes
As I go on writing my lines
Abandoning my enemies’ beelines
When the world with its tweets
Hold a machete to my poetic feet
I keep jumping across in silence
Hibernating until I get a balance
When the world says I’m no good
I remain quiet like a dogwood
Only to later shout against falsehood
More than the blabbing in my childhood
When the world says no
I say yes in credo
Because I’m the only one who knows that part
That part of me that is called the heart
When the world presses hard
I retreat to my library where like the bard
I strengthen myself with books
As I straighten out the hooks with books
O! When the world says I’m deceiving myself
I live to bequeath my bookshelf
And let posterity judge
Whether or not I live to be me
