YOU!!!

• Nicole Mavaega
• Poetry
• 2009

I’m always so angry
You want to know why?
My family makes me become like this
Hate and anger is what I can only hold
They tell me to become this and that
They tell me to do this and that
I don’t want to do all that and I don’t want to become what you tell me to become
I’m sick of it and I hate it
Why don’t you just leave me alone and let me do my own thing
I’m 15 and isn’t that just enough to ask
My life is like a prison
Like a rabbit trapped in a hole
Like a fly stuck on a spider’s web
My life is not yours to rule
My life is mine
I hate you all. Especially YOU