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Manic by nature, recurring on paper
Therapists lose hope, increasing the dope
Drugs flowing free, needles, pills, killing spree
Blood Spackle the walls, as heroes continue their falls
Running down the stairs
With my pink embroidered dance bag
The rising temperature
Causing my skin to moisten
Like a melted Hershey bar
I had declared it would not fall in love,
But the goddess Aphrodite took it as a challenge.
Still, I was so sure I could manage.
One day I met this man who asked me on a date.
On my way to work, I said no.
Since being grown up,
I read more now.
Not just for fun but,
to learn lore and how
this world is run.
This all began in 2015.
When Trump ran,
and I was eighteen,
I thought I would stay six forever, well that did not happen. I thought I could play with my toys and have fun with no challenges.
A Year Alone
I chose to go
To somewhere that was quite unknown
Whole new ideas
I had never heard
Ways of thinking I thought were absurd
And all my thoughts?
My challenge was to climb three vertical beams
that hang off of each other. No help from my team.
Swaying back and forth, I used small pegs
"The moment has arrived.
The day I've always imagined is here.
I spent nights without sleeping for this.
This is all you've ever wanted,
but you are scared.
It's now or never",
I would say to myself.
what is the meaning of lifeif my heart wants the knife
What is the point of loveif theres nothing to dream of
From the moment we are born there are things that shape us into the people we are today. For me and you we are given the choice to be shown the way.
To whom it concerns:
To everyone who has taunted and teased me:
For the color of my skin.
For the texture of my hair.
My mentor, my dear mentor,
How terrible you have been to me,
And yet I must thank you.
1) You’re never allowed to tell a lie
Unless the lie sounds nicer than the truth
To tell people what they want to hear
2) Everyone is right
Everyone is wrong
Have you ever dreaded to take a breath
Not the kind that fills soft moist lungs
But the kind that follows a silent death
Let me go no further
For I can see you
I don’t have to be there
Walking the path
Hundreds, no thousands had tread before
Winding through the hurdles of life
College, finals, work
How does it all get done
I worked towards perfection
Never stopping
The end seemed close by
Paralyzing and choking
My voice imprisoned
But the beauty of novels
Freed my voice and expression
What energizes one in early morning?
The favorite song drifting through the air
The symbol that the day is not for mourning,
But the beginning of the new, awakened by the music blare
I fall asleep with the desire on my heart.
With a plan in my mind.
But when my eyes start to open,
Before the sunrise,
I start thinking of my escape.
My excuse.
My bed is so warm.
Success,
You are the reason I wake each day,
You challenge me,
You change me,
I owe it all to you,
Success
There is fear and there is comfort,
But sometimes comfort is intertwined with fear
Challenges
Succeeding is the comfort of warm lavender bubbles enveloping your curves
Now I've had a thought,
that every person has a story to tell.
So humor me for a moment,
and write yours down as well.
I'll pay it back full price you see,
and tell you mine in return,
I am young, hungry, ambitious
I am Yond Cassius
I crave success
I relish challenge
I have bark
I have bite
I am the tip of the ice berg
The edge of a knife
The start of something great
Everybody experiences it
Temptation.
What should
Make your
Any different than
Everybody elses?
We are all
HUMAN
We all face
DIFFICULTY
That is what makes us
Who we are
When will my bones stop aching
when will my chest stop quaking
from my missing you
I must be the one
I must become some one
so I can love myself more than you
What if every word had a cost?
And you paid in in full
Every 'and' 'a' 'the'
Cost you part of yourself
We would be a bit less careless,
wouldn't we?
Hopefully
Probably
I don't need your approval for my actions
I don't care for your judgment on my transitions
Even if I'm doing wrong I don't need your permission
You would understand but you won't listen
Challenge! Oh how you ridicule me,
ridiculing all mankind with their failures
failures, the curse of this retched condition
Don't define the undefinable
People are not words, people cannot be broken down
No dictionary can tell me who to be
No thesaurus can find something similar
So neither can you.
Everyone says:
There we stood face to face
neither one daring to flinch
The mirror howling
screaming in agony
its cries growing more and more and even more intense
People keep staring
I just look to the floor
Strangers start talking
a few more steps to the door.
Beep.. Beep.. Beep.
Heart racing; too much noise
Cheery smile, happy face.
Living in this challenging and competitive world
Knowledge is the only thing that can’t be taken from you
Focus on getting an education and you will be unstoppable.
Success does not come easy, motivate yourself
For a friend I've since lost, this was his challenge to me: "Write me a poem in five minutes. Free verse, but I like rhymes. I dare you to make it fit me to a T, make it totally and completely me." And so, I did.
I’m told
Follow your dreams
Challenge yourself
Learn all that you can
Elementary
But if you don’t do well on the test
How could you know it at all
Conformity is like a box,
Your as sly as a fox.
You try to sneak in your ways,
This is not a game everyone plays.
Its so serious,
Dont act mysterious.
I have my beleifs as you do yours.
I
Am told
By TV
And by my peers
What to think, but not
How to think. You
Must teach me
How to
Think.
You
Teach me
How to think,
Whether that be
Who shall I praise in my moment of glory
Who shall I praise in my moment of pity
Who shall I praise when I need to be happy
Who shall I praise when I cry like a baby
Who shall I praise when I don't know who to be
Seasonal breeze, please slide in my window,
Flow through my hair and take away the pain of cramping fingers.
I love my big brain, but with the way it’s being endowed
They took it
You spent years
Pouring your heart
Soul and sweat
Into the wood and nails
The blisters and measured
Imperfections
Until one day
Your beautiful masterpiece
Was complete
You don’t know what I’m talking about
You don’t know what I want
You don’t have the ability to read my mind
