I have many tattoos and piercings
brandings and scars
everyone has a story to tell if you look closely
but please don't dare ask me for i am ashamed to tell you

you wouldn't understand how i got this scar here
you wouldn't care why i have this on me
you dare pick on me and put me down over this piercing
how dare you call me something i am not just because of this tat

I am just a mere freak to you
I am the rebel and outsider
I am emo and goth
punk and deathcore

these labels you place on me
you don't know me though so why
you see who you want to see
never whom that is there but a figment of what you wish i am

I am labeled the freak
I am labeled the trouble maker
The bad boy
The unruly child heading down a wrong path

I must do drugs because of how i look
my dyed hair and the styles i had are cries for help
they covered a deep scar that is now ever so present
no more colors just my jet black hair color

Stop asking me why i have this tattood here and there
Please don't ask me why i don't wear shorts in 100 degree weather
please don't label me things i am not before knowing my situations
Please just don't judge me

the freak that you are calling me is my disguise to hide
the Emo you say i am is just me being emotional for i can cry now
I cover up because of the abuse i went through
maybe i should open up and show you the hurt i went through

maybe one won't be so inclined to judge if they knew my pain
maybe one won't be inclined to put me down if they knew my reason
maybe if they were me they'd know my thoughts
know my true feelings how i am made to feel

i walk outside normal in appearence nothing new to me
sun beaming down on me as a new day begins
i am hopeful today will be a different start for me
then i see that look of the one person again and it starts over

During my life many masks have been necessary. Though you are right they invite judgement and scorn, I accepted them rather than tell the truth and confront the demons. Today I challenge them at high noon, their evil drug out into the noon sun to bake and stink. I slay them there...with everyone looking on.

G