Approximately You

They've got you convinced
that you are not you.
It's taken root so deep,
now you've convinced
yourself it really is true.

Make no mistake,
you are born of this earth
same as the violet,
the panther,
the mud and the shark.
And you know in your heart why I chose
those four,
you are color, 
you are force,
you are humble
you are bold.
you are magic
you're fierce
you're forever
you don't fold.

The blood in your veins
they got it stained.
They got you when you
were a kid
so the change is up to
your older self.
And I know with all
the money, the bills,
the time you need
to pick up skills,
to make more money
to keep climbing hills
they told you went higher
and higher
and as you would climb
to bloated forms of happiness,
you don't realize you're in a spiral.

They got you good.

Who the hell are you now
to question and judge?
Fit for circus rings
let the bears and lions out.
Dance to the flute
c'mon, everyone's waiting
and if you don't
make sure you're not there, you're missing.

Missing in action
MIA
That's what they'll say,
cuz everything's now condensed
to three letters.
The smaller,
the shorter,
the more portable,
the better.

So, if you are MIA
don't write shorthand
you got the gift to communicate,
use it!
If you are MIA,
un-taint that blood
you got that fire to retaliate,
use it!
If you are MIA,
find their darkness in you
you got the adrenaline to lacerate
use it!
If you are MIA,
be brutally you,
you got no time to be approximate,
seize it!