Don't label me for I'm not to be label

Don’t label me for

I’m not to be labeled

Don’t think you know me

And you know nothing of me.

I’m not to be confused with one of the click

That not how I roll

And not how I deal chick.

I’m sophisticated.

Educated.

A phenomenal woman.

YEAH, baby that is me.

No, I’m not trying

To be the next Maya Angelou.

I’m working hard

To make my own mark,

But you, you’re around trying to beat me down

So I don’t rise.

I will rise

I’m like Martin Luther King

I have a dream.

I’m not around trying to put people down

I’m not trying to destroy the hope they have

I’m trying to build dreams

What about you?

I see you don’t have an answer

To the question at hand.

If you stop trying to label others

For the things they do

Misjudging and criticizing,

Someone will extend a helping hand to you.

Don’t label others and they won’t label you

Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you.

I don’t have to show off my assets

To get what I need,

And neither do you.

I just have to be me

The only one I can be

What about you.

Copyright ã 2010 by Darlene Danaby