5 Poetry Society: Your Parents Don't Like Me

Monique writes a poem using the prompt 'Your parents don't like me':

Your parents don’t like me

You didn’t have to tell me

It’s pretty obvious

In the way they quite literally look past me

I guess I’m not what they envisioned for you

My race, my gender, my religious beliefs

I’m a little quirky, maybe too real

And that’s just the blatant truth

Did you say I’m no longer welcome at your home?

It’s funny because I thought in you I had found a home

But they’re your parents

I’ve already lost this fight

I know I’ll be walking out alone

Excuse me Ma’am don’t talk to me in that tone

I’m just a person like you

Look me in my eye

When you belittle me

When you tell your child to choose

Blackmail them with

‘think about all that you’ll lose’

So let me be the one to walk away

It’s not for you

But for my own dignity

Ultimately I have too much to lose

The people pleaser in me is screaming

The lover in me is weeping

But somewhere a future love interest is gleaming

You’re parents don’t like me

And that’s fine

I’m leaving