shut your mouth
you have no right to open it to me
on this
this is my life

and these words you hurl at me
these old words
from the old pages
of that stupid old book
are just distant
are just old

those words are ancient
their author
didn't know me
nor will he ever know me
because I am
not his child

so take your rules
and shut them in the book
and open up your mind and eyes
see what lies around you
stop hiding in the past

take your rules
and burn them in your fires
because I belong to myself.