Hand-Me Downs.

handed down… daddy's toleration,
fitted for mama's cultivation;

years of lack of ventilation―
made me a child of regulation;

handed down… TV's desecration,
tailored for social adaptation;

measuring teen spirit depreciation―
seeded for social alienation;

handed down… intellect fabrications,
scriptures in jihad with temptations;

silenced on autonomy conversations―
to avoid any poetic ramifications;

handed down…grandma's holy conviction,
darkness fits light for opposition;

lesson planned a malediction―
until I unlocked my declaration