limitations
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# Shine Your Light
We are not meant for shadows' cage—
Each soul, a lantern, on life's stage,
Burning bright against the night,
Breaking chains with inner light.
Inquisitive when caged
And indifferent outside a debt
Why haven't I taken over the world yet?
Thrashing madly on a stage
Without an audience, a band, or set
Why havent I taken over the world yet?
RAYAN
Limitations
My worlds sinking at the bottom of pain,
Filled with all the happy moments my life has had to sustain,
Broken souls and broken dream that I taught how to entertain.
How hard is it to breathe?
When your mind is not at ease?
In a sense you think you're fine, try to hold it in inside.
You affirm yourself, "I got this".
But you're not the kind who's reckless.
This poem is for the people who have put me in a box.
They have said: “Here you may come, and no further!”
I have been categorized.
Everyone always says that we have to be the best.
The best athlete,
the best student,
the best youth,
the best applicant.
But no one stops to think of the amount of
pressure they are placing on us.
In school we get through the names that try to drag us down,
That try to hurt us, to define us, to limit our potential.
We let them be the weight that ties us down,
The noose that we strangle ourselves with,
A young mind searches for the inspirational knowledge the world has to offer.
There is so much to learn, to absorb, to observe;
Yet only a portion is discovered
i want to look into Your eyes
and not wonder
what horrible things you’re thinking about me
i want to not have to worry
that Your smile is one of obscurity
i want to be able to be me
I have heard
that the sky is the limit
but I do not want to stop
until I touch the sun
and dance
in the moon’s pearly crescent.
