Speak For Myself
I speak for myself
That's the only person
Who's emotions
I can accurately articulate
There has never been
A person like me
And there will never
Be one in the future
No one has had
Exactly the same
Experiences as I
No one has reacted
To all of these experiences
Exactly as I had
So, as you read these ideas
Don't you dare think
That I speak for all black people
Nor all refugees
Nor every student sleeping
At the back of the lecture
Nor every young adult
Struggling to find
Work in this economy
Nor every person
Adjusting in a foreign country
Nor everyone who
Feels ostracized
I speak for myself
But the beauty of poetry
Gives me the ability
To paint emotions
And abridge a history
That many can relate to
- K.S. Fort
From, "The Civilized N -"
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