Continue Believing? Poem by Calle Hutch

Continue Believing?

Rating: 5.0

How am I supposed to continue believing?
Continue achieving?
When I can see them seething,
Just because I am breathing?

The pain of their vitriol and their stories,
Hangs on minds fervently,
Upends our authority,
And it fades with no urgency.

Stories, stories, stories.
That's all it ever was,
That's all it ever will be.

Because I can see what the men have done.
They wrote the play, that makes us run.

They flipped the script on how life should be,
Rewrote and revised until no one could see,

That we weren't the problem,
No, not you and not me.
That they made a system,
Where no one is free.

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06/20/2025

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POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
[Doctor Seuss who? lol😂 Im not trying to be dramatic, but I was feeling very disheartened and frustrated by the way Ive seen women being treated lately, and how I've been treated. Me personally, I cannot stand it because I have seen that we can do better, I know the world I want to live in. It felt like things were finally getting better in recent years with the gender inequality I grew up with for the first time in my life, and now it feels like there's been a complete 180. If there is one thing that really irks me it's enforcing stereotypes that stop people from fully being themselves, that prevent them from even trying something they might be good at just to make others " comfortable" . People will push you into a box just so they can hate you, and I'm sad to see what the world has become lately.]
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