Poetry Slam

So there's a poetry slam tomorrow. And I have decided to participate in it (only because I get extra credit points for doing so). Here are the poems that I have written:

Seasons
Your branches turn upward anytime the sun touches them
And your leaves fall anytime the wind brushes them

Your branches wilt anytime the cold attacks them
And your leaves disappear anytime darkness blackens them.

Society Notices the changing of the seasons.
Society Recognizes when things don't go as planned.

Why do we care? Why do we change? Why does the cycle of life continue to haunt us? Society is so busy trying to figure out life, that we miss it. Life is seasons. A continuous cycle that rarely changes. If we don't recognize this, then before we know it, Earth will reclaim what is rightfully hers and we will be left with nothing. Absolutely Nothing.





Truth
People Say I am restricted for what I believe.
I say to people that my beliefs set me free

People Say I am stupid for the things that I've seen
I say to people that I have studied what I believe, and I know it

People Say that I am naive for trying to see good in others
I say to people that if we don't see the good in others, then why look?

People Say I am depressing for stating life as it actually is
I say to people that you can't know happiness until you've known sorrow

People Say that I am living my life unworthy
I say to people that they do not judge my worthiness

People Say that what I believe is wrong
I say to people that until they believe what I believe, they could never know if it were wrong

People Say that I should try to fit in
I say to people that not fitting in the best way to fit in

People Say that I have committed a crime
I say to people that if there were no laws there would be no crime

People Say that I am good
I say to people that good is undefinable

People Say that I deserve to be happy
I say to people that happiness should be earned

People Say that I am the worst thing that has ever happened to them
I say to people that I am glad I hold a record

People Say that I am worthless
I say to people that most the most expensive things aren't worth anything

People Say that I am brilliant
I say to people that Brilliance never has existed

People Say that I am a prodigy
I say to people that to be a prodigy, is unfair. I work for what I have

People Say that I am not who I am supposed to be
I say to people that none of us are who we are supposed to be, otherwise we wouldn't be here

People Say
I Say

Here's the Truth


Since when do we live in a society where you don't work for what you have? Since when do we live in a society where it is "okay" to get whatever you want, for free. Since when has "afluenza" actually become a thing? Since when has the idea of "entitlement" become okay?

I'm sick of the way people act. I am Sick of the way people think itss okay to ruin someone else's life to get what they want. I am so sick of the laziest people getting whatever they want. They are and have started the downfall.

What about what this country was founded on? Certainly not laziness and donuts. What about this now twisted, contorted idea of the "American Dream".  We are letting the idea of what we want out of this life slip out of our fingers. And now, it will be impossible to catch. The only way that we will get it back,  is failure. Well, Good Luck.