Until I am someone
who thinks, mature, a fellow human
things are being done with me

regardless of the wishes
I was born with
baked within my body

There are the wishes of others
who I trust
to teach me how

to live, and I learn
the right of the strongest
who I am not

until I offer resistance
or go away, until I can do that
and do it

until I am
because I have equal rights
I think and speak out

longing to be mature, a fellow
human, a speaker, an example
and a helper