Being new
means you can reinvent
who you were
if you wish
If you wish
to be free of definitions
that were given with birth &
at school
At school
where people may have defined you
in terms of your family
class, colour, country & skin
Class, colour, country & skin
what are these things really
but external ways
some choose to decide who you are & determine
your opportunity?
Your opportunity
to be decided by history, chance, fate?
But maybe not now
you can be new in
time, place, space
Time, place, space
to reinvent to say, ‘look beyond my place of birth &
my face’
Your face
with so much more beneath
jaws bones just like any others
eyes all your own that tap into
dreams
Dreams
to reinvent, move freely,
& become something
you really want to be
You really want to be
unconstrained by stereotypes
limitations & hatreds
that oppress
the human spirit
The human spirit
is more than simple definitions
You are more than
country, class, skin
By June Perkins
Ripple Poetry 
Reblogged this on Pearlz Dreaming and commented:
Another poem from over at Ripple Poetry – all about being New in Town.