Poem: Somebody Stepped Inside My Soul

Somebody Stepped Inside My Soul

This world robbed me.

Somebody else was in control.

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It took a lifetime for me to figure out this trouble.

To unravel a mystery,

I was lied to

and taught this damn myth.

When you lied to me as a little boy,

somebody stepped inside my soul and robbed me of my life.

I became who you wanted me to become.

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I tried so hard to be a girl.

She was beautiful even.

I took the shape of what you wanted me to be.

My dad said I would amount to nothing.

They warned that I was unlovable.

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They did not know how to cope with having a child like me.

Nothing is what I became of me

until now.

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Always struggling to find myself.

Never feeling at home.

Always sick,

I became the living dead.

I had empty eyes to prove somebody stole my soul.

Constantly being violated by doctors,

and by this world.

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But I have a will for survival.

So you can hurt me, and hurt me some more.

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I lived invisible.

I lived in spirit.

Somebody else was in control.

Somebody robbed my soul.

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Your world would not let me exist.

I can’t live in denial no more.

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You told me I was a girl.

What would you know?

This world lied to you, and you then lied to me.

You are not my trouble anymore.

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But I have a will of survival.

Somebody Stepped Inside My Soul

This world robbed me.

Somebody else was in control.

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You are not my trouble anymore.

So you can hurt me, and hurt me some more.

I have a will for survival.

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Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez

August, 16th, 2016

This song, “The Troubles”, by U2, goes with this poem I wrote:

“God now you can see me

I’m naked and I’m not afraid.

My Bodies Sacred and I’m Not Ashamed.”

“I have a will for Survival”

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Lyrics:

“The Troubles”
(feat. Lykke Li)

Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control

You think it’s easier
To put your finger on the trouble
When the trouble is you
And you think it’s easier
To know your own tricks
Well, it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do

I have a will for survival
So you can hurt me and hurt me some more
I can live with denial
But you’re not my troubles anymore

Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till somebody else was in control

Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control

You think it’s easier
To give up on the trouble
If the trouble is destroying you
You think it’s easier
But before you threw me a rope
It was the one thing I could hold on to

I have a will for survival
So you can hurt me then hurt me some more
I can live with denial
But you’re not my troubles anymore

Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control

God knows it’s not easy
Taking on the shape of someone else’s pain
God now you can see me
I’m naked and I’m not afraid
My body’s sacred and I’m not ashamed

Somebody stepped inside your soul
Somebody stepped inside your soul
Little by little they robbed and stole
Till someone else was in control