I Am My Own Person

• Eve Cole, Grade 8, Tamborine Mountain State High School
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'Beyond Words 2015' competition

You harass and pressure me
This isn’t where I want to be
Your words are cutthroat
And I don’t have a vote
End of story
Is this your territory?
You mark me as property
But I will claim authority
Over my own body
I am not nobody
I am me, you do not own me
I am free
And it’s time we faced reality.