Expect Respect

Put your hand down,
put the bottle down.
It's time for you to listen to my voice,
my choice.
My choice is to stop bowing to you,
and letting you treat me the way you do.
It's gone on for far too long,
another elegy, another sad song.
But no more, never again,
I'm not as passive as I was back then.
I tried to love you,
but all you did was reject.
So now here we are, face-to-face,
Today's the day I finally Expect Respect.