Speak Up
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My heart speaks a language
no one understands.
It's dying to speak.
But it's already dead.
Let me tell you the story
Of a myth not known for glory,
Of an idea that has been forgotten
And replaced with something rotten.
La Boca
the mouth
Mi Boca
My mouth
I speak but I am hushed
Callate me dicen
No one should be allowed to speak
tienes poder
Lo tienes?
Do you have power?
No.
***Trigger Warning***
“Boys will be boys”
“Let bygones be bygones”
“Forget about it”
“Get over it.”
Fear
Conquerer of all,
Fear
Sweaty palms,
Choking on words,
Fear
Failure to speak,
Failure to reach out,
Fear
No one will see,
No one listens,
Speak Up, Speak Out
silence is emptiness
emptiness left by our own inaction
inaction leads to no where
Speak Up, Speak Out
nothing said is nothing done
why wait years
Speak Up, Speak Out
I need to write,
I need to fight for every breath I breathe
Without poetry,
Or symmetry,
Creativity,
When my pencil hits the paper
I feel the world come to a stop.
Suddenly I hold my voice in one hand.
The chains that constrained me drop.
I'm not small. I'm not scared.
I'm not silent for you.
all of the days when you wanted to hide
all of the times when you made mistakes
all of the moments when you hated what lived inside
all of the nights when your heart finally breaks
The thoughts that hide within the back of the mind
The words we think but not say
Of the people not heard when they speak
-Don’t speak- Look around. I am a girl who provides for my six siblings I have 2 jobs paying minimum wageBarely brushing by, i don’t get to have much to show off My bully doesn’t know this;My bully picks at my clothes, my hair, my rough finge
I hear a voice ring loud and clear
And I look around quite in fear
That perchance it might be mine.
What is this strange young thing I have found?
I dream of fields,
Fields upon fields,
Where dreams are
Created, creativity
Blooming like a flower
In a field, where you
Can be free, don't
You want to be free?
A silent shadow, trying to speak.
Day after day she was patient, trying to make her point.
Too scared to say her thoughts,
Too smart to ask out loud.
It felt like we were stepping out of a coming-of-age fantasy
An assault on my senses, the sensation was too much to bear.
We walked into the cracked pavement that was washed under the sun
I don’t write for entertainment, to gossip, or to complain about my life past or present . I write because, I believe my words are one of the things I have left in this world.
I asked you, my friend, to meet me at night
And hoped against hope that we'd be alright.
On that day I stopped watching myself fall;
Despite what you think, I remember it all.
Voice your opinion be heard
Your silence is death
But its only killing you
Born with a purpose
Have nothing to lose
Only to gain
Respect at the end
Not from the contribution itself
"Sticks and stones, may break your bones, but words can never hurt you."
I for one, would love to say that statement- is a load of bullshit.
A voice is not a voice
Without reason to speak
A voice with reason
Is meant to be heard
Without it, it's a murmur
Something everyone does
I have a voice inside my soul
Say no, say no, say yes, say yes.
No- to abuse. It's not necessary, not right.
Twenty-eight percent are in an intimate relationship!
Ninety-eight percent of offenders- aren't punished!
The balding man stood behind the girl with the hair,and he wished for just an ounce of her flair.But he looked at his hands and he thought to himself:"I'm so ordinary, it's no fair."
I wish I could've told my rapist I'm fucking dangerous
Maybe if I did I wouldn't be going through this bull shit
4 years of a child's life taken and slaughtered
My tongue is held by stitches
Cannot say how much it itches
Full of dips and mines
Bitten my tongue too many times.
I fight
I write
I conquer.. with my words
Ain't that something?
I'm mighty fine, alright.
I have a message:
You best be listening...
You know why you're living?
Let her eyes scan the fall
The wind blowing through her hair
She hears it now
All the words that were whispered
Behind her back
Words on how she was wrong
How she could never be right
Within the walls of an old prison
Rodrigo cries, honestly, to the lord for his crimes
Santiago, the priest, accepts the apology
Keep running things back in the same rhythm
I know you're dizzy, but have you had enough already?
There's always that boy in the corner,
whom appears to be a foreigner.
Nobody ever seems to talk to him,
or even take considration that his name is Tim.
He's quiet as a mouse,
Maybe it’s time for me to step back,
Forget get the good times, let go of the past.
I don’t think I’m welcomed anymore,
I think it’s time to walk out the door.
I’m sorry I had to hurt you all this way,
Every night I dream of that day,
The day you’ll take me away,
Grab my hand and pull me under,
Or maybe even grab the blade and watch me suffer.
But I know it’s going to happen,
There’s no running from fate.
I wish I can speak up.
Living in silence for 17 years
has taken away my strength:
strength to be confident;
strength to be wrong;
strength to rise.
I have been overlooked by many
Dancing is what makes me happy
you just won't get it
poetry is what makes me happy
you just don't get it
writing is what makes me happy
you just can't get it
In his eyes I am
the earth
the sun
the moon
In his eyes I am
his present
his future
his everything
In his eyes I am
perfection
a trophy
the one
But in my eyes
Tears are flooding down my eyes, knives are being pierced threw my heart. There bones tear threw their skin. It is as though they're walking skeletons.
The pain of the world takes a part of our hearts and souls
And refuses to give it back until all of us are gone….
But we continue to be happy
Light can not exist without Darkness,
Nor can there be Ying without Yang.
An endless fork in the road, right and wrong.
Flash "Scholarships" across a screen to get any driven students attention.
Explain how one may be rewarded for their accomplishments.
Schooled to learn education is the root to ascenion.
Speak my mind?
I can barely hear my thoughts.
Always talking trash about others,
do these bullies ever stop?
With all those nasty words,
I'm surprised your teeth don't rot.
I will break away.
I will break away from the walls that hold me.
I will break away.
I will break away from the lies they've told me.
The masses unrelenting,
dictating thoughts.
Think?
No.
Stop.
Listen and follow.
Follow my command.
Who are you?
Me?
I am you.
You are we.
There is no I.
A walk down the hall, all I feel is change.
Out of all the years, this one won't be the same.
New principal, more freshmen, a new set of rules.
My teachers wonder why it's like I'm never in school.
They say, life is like the sun
Full of energy
And bright as can be
They say, death
Is an ever changing
Prolonged unsolved mystery
They say, love is forever
never forgotten in a sea of misery
A trembling cry preysupon the unsuspecting matte cavesdark against a silhouetted night.
Ay! To be free!To be free!
A starved cry,famished by the oppressionof a silent tongue.
The youngest of six
The quiet child
The perfect daughter
The one who does everything right
She sits back in silence as she watches the fights
Hears the arguments
Listens to the cries
Don't tell me when I'm gone
Tell me when I'm here
Don't tell me to my back
Tell me to my ear
Say it to my face
Say it loud and clear
Don't say its intent
Say it sincere
Express with your words
Do you hear that
shh, listen closely
Do you hear that
shhh, listen closely
Do you hear that sound
the sound of a homeless man begging for beer,
of children crying because mommy and daddy don't wanna hear
Speak up for the deaf
Speak of for the silence
Speak up for whats left
Speak up for the violence
Speak Up! Raise the volume..
Yell it in the ears of our society
We dying from obesity!
