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Stereotypes
We are Human beings
We grow and change
Day by day
A constant change
Day by day
Every look
in the mirror
And it never gets
Any clearer
Regardless
We are Human beings
Its evolution
Day by Day
And yet
We never find a solution
To this little box
A tiny square
Four by four
And never there
A little jail cell
Of our own
With a little window
To only be shown
A reflection in the distance
And every day
We move and change
A new jail cell
To entertain
The same little box
With four different walls
All filled with check marks
To tell them all
A list of rules
Of standards
Of expectations
“A wide array,”
They say
With an exclamation,
“Choose what you want
But you must follow the
Expectations.”
“Follow the examples,
You’ll know what to do
You’ve seen them and heard them in every single room.
There’s nothing to be afraid of
Just follow the books and screens and magazines.”
You can grow and change
But only in a box
Go as high as you want
“Reach for success.”
“The sky’s the limit.”
But never forget
As high as you go
There’s always a list
And no matter what you do
You can only ever be
The words on that list
The adjectives on that list
And if it's all you ever know
Then you can never really know
There’s a whole other world of words waiting
For us
And infinite number of possibilities that you
Yes you
Get to choose from
And we are no longer trapped
In our little boxes
In our little jail cell
We no longer have to be
What the books and screens and magazines
Tell us we are
We no longer have a list
Of things to check
Only a world a adjectives
Only a key to the lock
Only an infinity of ways
To describe ourselves
And only in the beginning
And only in the middle
And only in the end
Will we ever be able to describe ourselves,
As everything and nothing and something
All at once
A beautiful sea of us
A beautiful sea of you
A beautiful sea of me
A beautiful sea of individuals
Because
We are human beings
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