I Am

I am

From hip-hop to high heels
To tight dresses with classy appeal
There's no other girl who's more mixed up than me.
Class is in session, so listen up please.

I'm from every spectrum from every zone.
I used to eat meat, but now I'm dioxin prone.
Science is in the game, so I changed my ways.
Vegetarianism
It's not just a phase.

Meat it's so sweet, juicy, stuck in your teeth
I miss it, but I kissed it goodbye
I'd rather be cancer free than slowly die.
I've researched it myself in my school's laboratory.
Test tubes are my thing, but so is oratory.

Can't you tell? I may be small
But my voice echoes from bell to bell.
My words melt
Coffeehouse stages
One day I'll be poetically famous.
Ethnically shameless, divinely diverse
This game...

Reached a point of insanity.
It is uncanny how I can go from
Minority to majority with just a flash of my face
A check mark in that box, am I truly in place?

I'm white on paper, but I've never felt that way
My parents born by Beirut bay.
A war torn country, they swore I'd never see those days.
The days of bombshells, rockets, guns galore.
Their adolescence's a struggle, they had to escape the war.

So in it all, I'm still white,
But I've always felt this internal plight
Not for being a majority race, but for always feeling I'm running this race.
This game where I mold with the masses but could pass for the faction.
I am both the oppressed and those who offend.
But let's not get too serious, I am the complete blend.

I'm not a concoction of Starbucks coffee beans.
I only drink coffee when I need caffeine.
But I can't stay up late, always got a game in the morning
Tennis or soccer athletically soaring.

Flying in the sky, no Red Bull needed
Adrenaline gives me wings, opponents get heated
When I make the assist and hit the winning shot
Even when I lose I give everything I got.

I may not drum in a girl rock band,
But I like to tinker with words and make non-believers into fans.
Poetry slam, I've slammed poetry
Every word perfectly molded and clean,
Written on my Mac for you to see.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• slam
• poetry