Breaking the conventional

Breaking the conventional By Christopher Ross Livingstone

I heard the conversations of the traditional 

Like a set of conventions set in stone by the patriarchal agenda

Influencing power and dominance with a norm and a way to be over me 

The traditions are the only way 

Follow and conform

Without a question or a thought 

Being caught in the convectional only breaks your authenticity

In turn the injustice is the limitation on your expression to be

We're more than carved conventions inscribed by traditions 

We are all diverse in richness 

Lived in lived experiences and histories 

Patriarchy agenda intention is

Norms over forms 

Power and mastery 

We are on the factory lines of manufactured norms 

Instead

I've questioned and challenged 

I see the exceptional over the conventional

It's forms over norms

Breaking the conventional is perceiving beyond the traditional 

And the one size fits all