We are not traditional

I want to be like you
I think I'm amazing, still I want to be like you
I want to be great like you
I'm pretty great myself, but I want to be on your level of greatness
I want to be smart like you
I'm already smart, but only for a black girl
I want to be white girl smart or asian smart like you
You are amazing and sometimes I wonder why you put yourself down to standards below you
Below who you are...
It hurts to watch sometimes because I know who you are and who you could help me to be
You're my role model
If I could get you to drop this petty shit we could both lean on each other
And learn from each others mistakes
I learn from yours and soon enough we can be on the same level; different scale, but same level
Then we could love and share a special bond I don't share with anyone else...love
We could fall in loveand forget those unwritten rules poeple try to shove down our throughts...
Be the nontraditional couple and throw my parents off their high horse
Be successful and do what we never expected for our people
Not because we think we have to
But because we know there's another way to do things
And we want to open that door for the people who think like us
But can't find the strength to do anything about it.