A Change of Perception
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You see darling
You have the choice
To view any moment
As amazing or terrible
You have the control
To take a small thing
A robot in an endless army of youth.
Told to be brave, told to be strong.
Told to stand tall and keep marching along.
With nothing but orders to be believed as the truth.
Grown in a world with standards and rules.
To bask in the light of life
Is to bask in the threat of
Death.
Ominous, foreboding, and
Looming over your
Heart.
But that's okay,
Its all fine,
As long as you are
Always mine.
Perception of reality is individual.
The philosophy is simple:
The process of life is equivocal
and understanding is futile.
I fell in love with a man who lives in a world of black and white
Doesn't quite see something that isnt at sight
I stand in the front light to make sure that I shine, but my color's to bright almost seems to blind
Life is simply an illusionCircling around worldly reasonA world we see as true memoriamOnly made by our own comprehension
I wouldn't know the world as I
If I haven't made the first cry
I wouldn't know of a elite parlance
Unless for an exquisite silence
I wouldn't know I was different
Unless all around were indifferent
Essay writing and poem writing
Me, myself, and I agree we prefer poems over essays
English teacher for senior year made me like poems and understand them.
First time poet. I will not disagree with me being an amateur
What needs a change most,
is what is never changed.
Identity.
You are always the same you,
aging and changing over time,
allways just you.
I would change that,
