Don’t Touch me
Don't touch me.
How dare you try dip your
already sticky hands into this honey jar.
I'm sorry if you saw me from afar
but you were far from my mind
before you decided to lock on to my behind.
Don't touch me.
You say not all men are the same
We're giving you a bad name
You're not trash but your behavior is something foul
when your homies don't call you out and neither do you
When another woman becomes the target and they take their aim.
Don't touch me.
You “Can't even give a compliment now?”
You're “Too scared to talk to me?”
We think every kind gesture is to harass
I'm sorry, but how do you usually greet your home boys?
Do you usually try to feel up their ass?
Don't touch me.
Your verbal apologies are losing their value
If you want to make bank on your conscious
Cash in on your changed actions.
Don't try to
eye me like you know me
You're a stranger who think it’s stranger that I defend myself
instead of you asking yourself
“What's wrong with this behaviour?”
Don't touch me.
Tt's not my fault that you feel insecure
that you need to assert your dominance and
belittle my confidence
Don't touch me.
For what's mine is not yours
You're proud of your bullshit like you've won the super bowl and you're keeping score.
Well bring your manhood over here and collect your trophy against my knee
don't touch me.
I’m not scared but you like that
Women aren't afraid anymore
So you see our reaction as a challenge
common knowledge can’t be so common
if you think a woman is
situation you can manage
Well can you manage to keep your hands to yourself
Before you think they belong on me?
That your fingers were molded as a holder for any part of my body?
can you manage
to treat me with human decency
can you manage
Honor, Integrity, decorum
dignity
Can you control your sense of superiority
And manage to treat us
To treat me
as an equal human being
They way it's meant to be.
To not see us
As things you can own
To correct your friend when they do wrong
Why does it have to be your daughter, your sister, your friend before you stand on our side and ask this to end?
Can you speak out against your friend beating his wife?
Can you manage to empathize with our strife?
Can you decide to walk away and not ruin my day? Or the rest of my life ?
Because I still remember the first time it happened
Something that shouldn't happen to any child
I have enough bad memories
I don't need anymore, thanks
If you need to fiddle with little toys
Be a big boy and
Stick in your pants
Do. Not. Touch. Me.
