Like

I'm Like
I bet you thought that was an incomplete sentence
But what I really mean is I am Like
Huh... like Mike?
Not quite, like Like

See, if my name were Like
Then there's probably only one person in the universe
I share names with; Nasir Jones

My name is Like
Hi Like
Sometimes I'm combative
Other times I am affectionate
Sometimes I am competitive, comparative
I just wanna be you or maybe just like you

But you see, you and I are not the same
I refuse to let my life be determined by a collection of likes
I mean, how many more likes do you have to get
For you to like yourself just a little, goddamn it

I am unlike you
Because I know what I'm like
And I like myself regardless
You are a rambling teenage girl
Using me as a filler word to score cool points
You go, "I'm like, they be like, she be like, it's like"
Just shut up, you incoherent degenerate

There is certainly a disparity
Between the likes of you and the likes of me
See, we are like identical twins
We share like DNA but we are nothing alike
You avoid conflict, I like to respond in like manner

You used to have my back until we fell apart
And now I feel like every time you say my name
You say it with an unconscious tick
And just like that, you've turned me into a scornful paradigm
Cause every time the Grannies hear my name
They just shake their heads in contempt
For the meaninglessness I have become
And it's all your fault

Why do you enjoy my torture so much
Every time you stab me with your steel spiky nails
My heart bleeds and pours out all over your device
I am your dopamine hit

I have emptied the contents of my heart
And you still don't feel liked enough

I am here to tell you
There is a difference between like and obsession
And I don't particularly get jiggy with the latter