Can you call me by my name?

Can you call me by my name 

When everything I do 

Is coerced and manipulated by you 

When you took my heart out 

And try to fit yours in place 

My rib cages break and ache 

As I try to evasively embrace 

When my words are your feelings 

Everything that I say is to corroborate what you said 

When my words are your thoughts 

Everything I say is what you’d say instead 

When you play the game of my life 

When you move the pieces with your mind 

When you slap off the frown 

And in place put a delicately fabricated smile 

Names are identities 

But then I am an imposter

I am not who I pretend to be 

I am an imposter!

But I do not want to be a fake 

I want to be me

Let me be me 

Let me be me 

I ask you once again

Can I be me when all there is about me is yours? 

Tear and desperation, Shouts and frustration

Tear and desperation, Shouts and frustration

How much longer shall I endure? 

See my originality

See me for being the first and only of my kind 

See me, Feel who I need to be

What is the point of a carbon copy

Can you call me by my name 

When everything I said is sadly true 

Can you call me by my name 

When even who I am, even my name was given by you?