They clock the miles carved in my back,
They count the scars across my fists.
They see the iron I never lacked
In the morning’s cold, relentless mist.
They read the words I bled on the page,
A philosophy forged in fire,
A sovereign will, a singular rage-
Relentless, purified desire.
Thoughts I never shared,
Feelings left unagreed,
Desire waiting for its name-
I stood idle when I should have moved.
Look at me, woman, look at me now,
See the mountain I built from the ground.
Veins like rivers, will like stone,
I walked through fire alone.
One sentence from my heart could break the chain,
But I kept walking in the rain.
Look at me-really see-
I’m still here, still free.
Come closer, don’t turn away,
I’m calling you today.
I mapped the prisons of my own mind,
Served the sentence, paid the cost.
Ronie Dinosaur has left the boy I was behind
On a bridge of every comfort lost.
I earned this silence, this heavy peace,
This kingdom built by my own hands.
But a kingdom’s roar is a hollow release
On unremembered lands.
Look at me, woman, look at me now,
See the mountain I built from the ground.
Veins like rivers, will like stone,
I walked through fire alone.
One sentence from my heart could break the chain,
But I kept walking in the rain.
Look at me-really see-
I’m still here, still free.
Come closer, don’t turn away,
I’m calling you today.
I am not asking-I am stating a fact:
An equation unbalanced, a broken contract.
Not a plea from the weak, but a call from the strong-
Isn’t it an insult
that a man like me
and a woman like you
never cross paths for long?
I held meaning at bay; I was blind, and I learned.
Now the engine is idling… the furnace is burned.
Look at me… look at me now…
I’m tired of walking alone.
One sentence, one step, one chance to be found-
Woman, turn around.
Look at me.
Look at me… look at me…
