The Dangerous Minds
They tell us to sit still, be quiet, stop humming! Keep our thoughts in neat lines, Fit our brains into boxes— But we don’t fit. We never did. We never did! We are the ones with fire behind our eyes, The ones who see what they cannot, Who tear the seams of their comfortable silence, And disrupt the order of their fragile control. We are dangerous— Not because we are broken, But because we are whole in ways they will never understand. We are chaos to their symmetry, A whirlwind to their well-groomed lawns. They call us disorder, distraction, Label us with acronyms and medical names, As if putting letters to our existence Could contain the wild rivers in our minds. But they fear us. Oh, they fear us. Because we don’t march to their drums, We create rhythms they cannot dance to. Our thoughts jump tracks, Collide with stars, Leap over fences they’ve built to keep us small. We are the rebels, the creators, the ones w
