This one is for you, Remember that will you?

For those of us who write,
and yet have millions of half written journals,
 
For those of us who have a million words running through your mind per second,
and there is just no way a keyboard or a pencil can keep up,
 
For those of us who are too timid and scared to share,
and keep their words sacred to themselves,
 
For those of us who work hard and play by the rules,
but get overlooked and underestimated because the "bad kids" need the attention,
 
For those of us that find it hard to hush those demons,
and have to fight the urge to sit in a tub of water and be submerged forever,
 
For those of us who fight for those who have no voice,
and sleep restless at night because there are people trying to silence you,
 
For those of us that have to suffer the nightmares and horrors of the past,
and have to wonder the streets wondering when you will be given back for what you have given,
 
For those of us who have no one,
and find themselves wondering aimlessly,
 
This one is for you. 
 
the sufferers, 
         the beggars, 
the whores, 
           the sluts,    
       the mischief makers, 
  the hooligans, 
the idiot, 
   the no life's, 
           the bitch, 
   the motherfuckers, 
the cutters, 
  the A- students, 
    the athletes, 
the popular, 
     the queen bee, 
        the homecoming queen, 
the queers, 
             the faggots, 
    the bi-sexuals, 
                the in-betweeners, 
the invisible's,  
   the gamer,
             the nerd, 
the weirdo,
         the freak, 
the bully,
      the asshole, 
the cheater,
             the drinker,
   the liar,
         the hard worker,
                     the slacker,
 the pothead,
 
This is for all of us with a story and a skeleton that is overloading that closet.
Because we all have a story. 
Whether it is told or not, that story exists,
Inside of you.
Someone who is important to this world.
because there is only one you.
Remember that will you?
Because we, us, all of us,
We are stronger when heard.
No matter the form of hearing,
Painting, Writing, Photography, Singing, Composing,
We are heard.
Remember that will you?
 

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