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Poetry On Odyssey: Who Are You

You are supplying the sticks and throwing the stones

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Poetry On Odyssey: Who Are You
Jerry Kiesewetter

Who are you to say that Jesus doesn't love me

Just because I'd rather kiss girls instead of boys

Who are you to say that all lives matter

When your white brothers and sisters and parents and grandparents and cousins and aunts and uncles and friends and lovers are not being taken night after night with no justice

Who are you to decide whether scared individuals who are seeking refuge in our country are all dangerous

Who are you to judge a person's life when you've never stepped in their shoes or walked on their road

You are supplying the sticks and throwing the stones

Who are you to say that millennials are the problem

When we just want to fight so our children and grandchildren will be able to breathe clean air and have a better education and be treated equally no matter what

Who are you to say that my tattoos make me ugly

When your personality does that to you all on its own

Who are you to stay silent

Don't you know being neutral in arguments of oppression puts you on the side of the oppressor

Who are you to say that I can just get over it

My mental illness is not a common cold. I can't take medicine and be all better. I am not sniffling and coughing. I am suffocating on my thoughts. They want me to drown so you tell me to breathe but I am underwater.

Who are you to say that my scars make me ugly

My scars outline my past and they are the tracks that I almost fell off of but didn't. They remind me where I've been and remind me why I'm here. My scars are beautiful.

Who are to say that you and I are equal

When I have to work harder but still end up making less money

Who are you to judge me based on how I look

My weight does not define my worth and I am perfect regardless of what the scale says

Who are you to prematurely deny my entrance into heaven

When all sin is equal and your judgment will soon turn against you

Who are you to deny equal rights

It's not cake. More rights for someone else does not equal less rights for you.

Who are you to criticize my love

When it's just love and love is love is love is love

Who are you to correlate skin color with personality or character

Pigment is pigment and you should look in the mirror before you judge a book by its cover

Who are you to mock the working class when my parents gave me everything even though they had nothing and here I am in college proving everyone wrong

Who are you to say that I, or anyone, can't do anything we set our minds to

Who are you to stop our dreams

Who are you? Are you ashamed or guilty?

Who are you?

Are you afraid? Afraid someone might ask who you are?

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