The Pretender

Don't preach originality,
you posing carbon copy.
Don't lecture for freedom
when you're entrapped in slavery.
Don't say you've got it all
from within your own soul
when every piece is copied
that can be found in the whole.
Don't pretend you're the first
when you're only the one
who has taken the worst
from each before and together have woven.
Don't lay on the fog
in hopes to distort the truth
that you are not special
but only another lie uncouth.
And don't guilt those doing it right
to convince them you have the answers
for your lies and life
have infected enough with their cancers.