Rage against the box...

You built a box and said I belong there

That I would feel more comfortable, 

or was it you that would be comfortable

You said my family is there,

And those that look like me,

in this box-cage...where you say I belong

I know this cage,

It's familiar to me, 

I was born there but choose to leave it,

And from this cage that you made 

I take my family, faith, culture, and community

and leave instead your poverty,

and violence, your lack of opportunity 

and night without dreams...

and go help build the world 

for my future children

for my nieces and nephews

...their world will be different 

It will be better...