kyra+kammerdeiner+poetry

kyra kammerdeiner poetry I AM A DEGENERATE I am a degenerate, I am not all that I can be, People try to drag me down, Once I’m on my own, they’ll see, I will be my own person, I will do my own thing, I won’t change for anyone, Not even a diamond ring,

I am a degenerate, For right now, at least, I’m silent like a lamb, Soon I’ll roar like a beast, Because I am so young, I must listen to my elders, But, soon, when I’m grown, Myself and I will be my elders, I will have to answer to only myself, And live with the decisions I make, I Am sure to face opposition and antipathy, The innate behavior of a person is to hate,

I am a degenerate, But soon I’ll be free, No one will be able to tie me down, No one, but me!

__ We are taught to Hate __ We are taught to hate from a very young age, As children, our parents mold us into who they want us to be, Like Hitler attempted to make his perfect Aryan race, they try to make their perfect child, We like what our mother and father tell us to like, we take on their ideology, We are taught to hate strangers, to hate bugs and spiders and snakes, to be afraid of the world, All the attributes they like and dislike, we are taught to agree with, We see when our parents talk behind others’ backs, We see when they fight like the Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s, We learn to make fun of those who are different than we are, The ones who dress differently, or look different, those who express themselves differently than we do, Throughout adolescence we begin to see how hate affects the world, it’s a contagion, We are taught not to bully in school, We begin to understand not everyone is the same, and that it’s okay to be different, We are no longer deprived of the ability to judge other by ourselves, Though, it is when we come into adulthood that we develop our own morality, We make our own decisions, choices, judgments; we have our own minds, We begin to realize hate is wrong, and all we witnessed through childhood isn’t the way to be, We are taught everything we know, we have to then decide what to do with it, We decide what is wrong and what is right, Let love flourish, let hate die!