Resistance to the Tyranny of Your Telling

Tell me I can’t and I will storm across the stage
And disrupt the show.
Tell me how much you love me and I will betray you
Like a promise between school girls
Whispered behind their hands at recess.
Tell me that I am beautiful and I will kick at the dirt
And avoid mirrors for a thousand centuries
Just to prove you wrong.
Tell me the sun will always shine on me if I just let go
And then watch me clutch my angst and snarl to my dying breath.
Tell me to stay forever and I’ll toss everything I know
To the curb as I leave this town.
Don’t you dare tell me that I am
Always enough, satisfaction guaranteed, done.
I will set myself afire and scream across the sky like a firework
That could not wait for darkness.