A Poem Called "Nothing About US"

Nothing About Us,

by theamazinJ

Founding art,
founding poetry,
founding film,
founding paints filled with colors,
filled with everything that serves us,
speaking with our tongues,
voicing with our fingers,
hearing with the perimeters of what we can hear,
seeing what brilliance everything has in store for us,
moving our bodies whichever way we go.
Because it's nothing without us, and nothing about anyone else,
it's about life and living and striving for our own self-determination.
Nothing about us,
Nothing without us,
Nothing ever comes between us and you and anyone,
we strive to keep our dignity,
we respect everyone who tries hard to maintain respect,
keeping our mind common hope, to love, to hate,
I love you, I hate you.
Every time we live it's either love or hate every part of the day,
but most importantly,
it's about what love we can keep and what hate we can let go.
Relationships come, relationships go,
take the masterpiece to the fundamental truths of matter,
to the relations of who we are,
because in the end,
it's about us, it's about life, and it's what matters most
building life, liberty, and common practice of what we all know,
the body we live in, the mind we were given,
and the talents we build to surface the world with
and make the difference we have with what it takes
to live however we feel and want.
No one takes that away,
everyone must find it for themselves
regardless how they see,
regardless how they hear,
regardless how they feel,
and regardless how they emerge with their inspirations.
Everything goes from one thing to the next,
we speak with what we've got and how we can at the time,
and from this day forward,
forget about inspiration of who you are of who I am,
forget about tokenizing or passing for what others want,
and just remember to have the attitude
to be who you are with what you want with what you have
and remember to take everyone's opinions as a grain of salt
because that's all that is, it means nothing,
and one day when you're sitting at the door
waving goodbye to the world ready to leave,
you'll remember
Nothing about us, without us,
you'll remember you lived for you, not for other's and their opinions,
and you lived for everything you wanted
without letting any part of the your masquerade
passing in society become influenced by anyone.
Leave it at that and cross and fade and pass through the curtain as that.
and one last thing,
say 'Thank you' too.