I feel as though yesterday,
I opened my eyes for the very first time.

Yesterday, was day The First,
The first day that I had known,
For words alone,
To cause such hurt,
To cut down to the bone.



I did not cry,
Beneath your gaze
Or the confusion on your mind,
Evident, I'll have you find,
In the denial in your eyes



It wasn't much,
To sit there,
To stare,
As though a ghost...



But she was there for me last night,

To stand up for me,
When I faltered on my feet,
Unsteady knees beneath me
To be my voice...



That I shouldn't need,


Because I can stand,
On my own two feet!
I can speak,
Without missing a beat!


I'd love to tell you who I am,
To stand and tell you why you're wrong.



You think you're argument's so strong,
When it's rittled with holes,
loopholes,

all around.



Funny how that works,
How you used to insult me with that word.

You thought it was cute,
just a nickname you gave me,
I thought it was awful,
demeaning and rude...



Loophole girl,
You called me,
Well, take a good long look,
Which one of us is searching,
For a way out of this whole affair,



Debate,
Discussion,
Argument,
By whatever name you call it,
It's really all the same



How do you think it feels,
To be told that you don't exist,
That in the eyes of the law,
You're invisible,
Until you've enough years on this earth to be imprisonable,



To be told that my feelings are just that,
Feelings,
That don't matter in the scheme of it all.



To be told that, One day,
I'll amount to nothing at all



To be told that it's my fault,
When you're the one with the keys,
When I'm just looking for something,
To find some release,



But I'm glad that I found it,
In the character, cadence,
Rythm and time



The meticulous magic,
Of poems and rhymes.



The sylabical fashion,
Of lymrics, so light,
Or the lyrical lilt,
Of a Hicou at night!



And when I try and show you,
What I've worked so hard to be proud of,
You simply brush it off, empty, not even a second thought
Or tell me to go, just simply leave you alone,
Go do something...