Please don't shout!

My eyes see, my ears are open

Let me know what your thoughts are, yes, please,

Really, Why should I mind when

You show me something fantastic, let me hear your latest

Let my wall be your screen and my life being your channel

Share your words, stick your poster on people's backs

And wipe it with my bloody flannel

As I walk I see, I hear everyone's mind

I see you, I see you, staring back, all of you, so unkind

Some of you yelling, spitting images and regurgitating words

Cacophony is not the issue, I can switch off, If I try

But please don't shout

Don't give me a tissue if I don't need to cry

Don't tell me what I should think, don't stick your opinions in my brain

Don't try to test me again and again

Let me breathe, let me discover and gently unfold

Let me have a say, let me stand alone or join you if I wish

Don't want to be always told

Don't tell me I am a woman

Don't tell me to be behave

Lipstick cherry blossom bosoms sex slave

Princess slut beauty and the beast

the brainwashing and the ignorance

your opinionated rubbish your high opinion and low tolerance

Don't shout at me about men and all men who are bastards

my man I respect has no say, I pray, do not interfere

with my lifestyle choices, my life is painted by me not by your fluorescent crap

don't shout about bombs and wars and your need of help

Before I can donate, support and interfere, I need to know you are  honest and sincere

I am, surely, I am here and not out there

with you lot and your fears

my duty is to look after myself above all

so

please

don't

shout

I can't hear it, I can't feel it any longer

It's too much, too much

Overloaded and misinformed

confused, hurt and actually bored

Whatever you say, it's my decision

to break it, fake it, believe it and remake it

I won't repeat your story as we all know

How it gets distorted in the media

like Chinese whispers

I don't need to have a say

I don't need your hate

I don't need to like or reply

I don't need an instant mate

Don't put a label , don't post a comment

don't think feminism and equality are the same for not even a moment

Don't put me in the right place as the right place is your wrong place

Don't put me in a movement or a current or trend

because unlike you, you see I don't pretend

to know everythink

Don't start acting on my interaction

Don't poke me and wait for my reaction

Don't shout

I have listened but I am getting tired

Of hearing the same old same old

I don't like to be told

Don't say you are against violence and terrorist attacks

Don't show me too much I get panic attacks

What concerns me concerns the world

But I decide, I need to find the right word

to describe how I see myself inside all this turmoil

find my inner peace and connection to the soil

For I pray and say and hey

one more time I say and I pray

that I may just be deaf today

for tomorrow I will hear only

Silence