Labels Poem by Charlotte Morgan

Labels

Tagged from birth
Labels multiply
No control
Stick or slide

Read them
Believe them
Act them out
Shackled to spin

Close ears
Close mouth
Walk tall
Be strong

Rip off
Burn doubt
Speak out
New labels found.

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We make assumptions about people and they about us. We can conform or ignore but either way we are judged.
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