I Didn't Belong

Remember that time when you could say I didn't belong And you were right? That I couldn't come in, couldn't go out Be about whether day or night? Couldn't walk, couldn't talk without your approval And cultural hegemony excited forced removal? You could mock me, and scorn me and make me look small Play me - man, woman, child - never the ball Assured your first-class citizenship Ne'er that slip between cup and lip And in the grand scheme of survive The secondary impulse for how others are alive And now matters not constraint, or handicap right at the onset Now there's only self to blame for conditions of regret Awards and rewards for building on benefit Manipulation trumpeting as talent implicit Brings us full circle to the brink Where you still also want to tell me how to think SP