What's Normal?

                                                        

I am unlike the girls

Of my age, my culture

Maybe I should change that

Should I lie down on that bed of sin and

Surrender my heart, my soul, my innocence?

Give myself to whomever offers

And do it whenever

Because that's what I'm supposed to

Do right?

Maybe I should cut off all my hair,

Watch it fall to the floor

With no regret

Like I didn't spend

My whole childhood growing it.

While I'm at it

Throw away my hot comb and flat iron

 And get a perm

Because water should make my hair nappy and kinky

Not wavy and curly

Or maybe I should get a wig or a weave

Because every black woman is the

Same right?

My hair isn't supposed to be long or natural

I'm too dark,

So I couldn't possibly be

Mixed right?

Maybe I should stop saying

Like, totally, omg

And replace them with

Fuck,nigga, bitch

And let them fly out of my mouth

Like everyday language

And while I'm it, stop listening to

Madonna and Taylor swift

And replace them with

Kayne and 2 Chainz

Because I'm from the hood

I'm supposed to be

Ghetto right?

The truth is I'm happy to be me

I'll stick out

like a rose from concrete and

I'll keep my long wavy hair that

Flows like Lake Geneva on

A beautiful windy day

I'll keep talking like I do

Because “it's like totally fun”

I am black

I am a girl

No matter what anyone says

And who wants to be normal

Right?