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Day Off

I need a day off
from this irritating cough
i need a day off
from the snickers, smirks and scoffs
I really need a day off
from all these butterflied up moths
 
will I ever get a break
from this sickness, keeping me awake
will I ever get a break
from admitting my mistakes
could I please just get a break
from confusing what is fake 
 
I wish I could get a rest
from this god forsaken test
I wish I could get a rest
from all the weight upon my chest
I wish I could get a rest
from getting myself so depressed
 
but I need to step it up again
to restore my word to what its been
but i need to step it up again
never ceasing my conditionin'
I mean I really need to step it up this time
in my life, my brain, and in my rhyme

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Together We Will Be

Im sitting thinking of you find I do this all the time
Thought id make something of my thoughts maybe put them in a rhyme
I think of what we are and what we’ll be and what we’re meant to do
All I know for certain is I always think of you

You live in my mind now and I know youre there to stay
I’d be hurt so bad if you just up and went away
So I hold on to the memories and thoughts of you and me
And if you think about me to together we will be

So stay with me inside my mind until I see you standing there
Stay with me in memories til I can run my hands right through your hair
Stay with me in thought until your laying next me
And when you are inside my arms, together we will be

I never want to lose you, I hope I never will
I never thought Id feel this way its amazing to me still
So stick with me through bad times and enjoy with me the good
And ill make sure I treat you like a knight in armor should

I will be there for you no matter what life brings
I swear when I first saw you, you were wearin angel wings
You were sent down here from heaven, to fill my empty soul
You were sent here to me to place my heart within this hole

So stay with me inside my mind until I see you standing there
Stay with me in memories til I can run my hands right through your hair
Stay with me in thought until your laying next me
And when you are inside my arms, together we will be

Soon Ill be there with you as your falling fast asleep
Ill be there to help you as your counting all those sheep
Holding you inside my arms as I drift off in dreams
Oh what perfect future, a future with you seems

So stay with me inside my mind until I see you standing there
Stay with me in memories til I can run my hands right through your hair
Stay with me in thought until your laying next me
And when you are inside my arms, together we will be

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Society Won'T Change Me

have you ever let someone make you feel like youre out of place,
see the looks they give like you must be from outerspace,
our society is judgemental where any difference is a disgrace,
pain is felt by so many, society spitting in their face,
 
if you break free from normality they will only throw you away,
become another casualty of a world slipping everyday,
people feelin enough pain inside to choose it better not to stay,
it needs to change.
 
person by person being told what they need to be,
an imaginary standard most think they need to meet,
but when those standards drop all thats left is concrete,
and the people who surround you turn to judgement and deceit,
 
if you are left feeling like you have nowhere else to go
let life plant some motivation i swear that in time it will grow
and with a smile on your face and a newly found glow
take it out into the world and display it, let it show
 
ideally it will be seen and hopefully be spread,
take away the insecurities and bad thoughts in peoples head,
so for once the concience can be clean when they lay down in their bed,
eventually we can pray the misery and guilt can all be shed
 
hope that i can help the process with the poetry i write,
take away the jealousy set me free of all my spite
but can i really make a difference using my pen as my might,
i hope we can all start over, and maybe this time get it right,
until that day i promise: i will not give up on the fight.

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Clean Slate, Please

picking up the pen again it's been awhile with no conditionin', 
when you've been gone so long where do you begin? 
I fell again, 
i had to sin in my mind to win, 
but I lose

sitting alone in my room like I’m on auto-cruise, 
every look in the mirror givin my ego a bruise, 
because i know where i am is due to what i choose, 

fade myself away into the day, the way the day fades into night, 
and when the dark surrounds I'm not around to feel the fright, 

i'm in my mind lost in a world that isn’t mine, 
looking for a way out, hoping for a sign, 
a self-induced coma from which i wish i could resign, 
all these things have become malicious but my intentions were benign, 
and although i wanted to begin this i feel I've crossed a line, 

and there seems to be no coming back, 
the feeling of a constant heart attack, 
all my vision slowly fades to black as i feel my knees begin to slack, 
i don't feel myself fall only hear my head smack, 
on the floor with a crack, 

did it awaken me or has it just shaken me?
either way I think it's makin me feel like this world is fakin me, 
and i just wanna clear the slate ya see?

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Shine Your Light

I sit and I spit words from my pen to this pad
as if all of my words are all I've ever had
 
I don't rap, I don't sing, but I sure do think often
and my thoughts are one thing I can take with me to the coffin
 
I think of the hate and disgraced we choose to diplay
you see it in every eye, all of the shame and the dismay
 
but why shine a light on whats dragging you down?
we choose to follow blindly and now we are the clown
 
shine a light on a better day
in a better future, in a better way
in a better place where we all can stay
a better world where our kids can play
without the fear they'll be taken away
that's where I choose to shine my ray

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Angst-Iety

anxiety in my mind, still growing inside of me
showing off all the things that I try to hide in me
 
it's crippling my mind and confusing how I feel
an illness of a different kind, now i'm confusing what is real
 
people around me saying i'm a little strange
but in my own opinion i'm just a tad deranged 
 
I mean, I can admit it, at times I am quite off
but this illness i obtain does not show itself in coughs
 
it's an illness of the mind, affecting everything
completely fine one second, don't know what the next will bring
 
calming myself is mission impossible 4
sometimes I build myself up just to end up on the floor
 
so if you see me sitting there,
my hands burried in my hair,
I am running in my mind and completely unaware
of the fact that you are there,
but this parkbench we can share
but if you're looking to talk, I might shoot you a glare
cause when I feel like this I just really wouldn't dare
because all these thoughts in my head just can't bring themselves to care
you can try all you want but you won't break this distant stare.
 
so before you see me differently for an affliction I must face
think with sympathy, empathy, put yourself there in my place..
...cause when we really try to understand, the judgement we erase.

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Secret Admirer

I can't seem to describe how I feel when you feel down
all I know is all I wanna do is turn your day around
 
and though to me much of your past remains a mystery
the fact is you past's your past, its only history
 
and I think it's funny, the strong feelings that I have for you
where I'd do anything I can to help you when your feeling blue
 
I wish I had made more of myself, my life, throughout the years
Wish I could be your knight in shining armor sent to wipe away all of your tears
 
I wish I had the means and the ability
to show you, everyday, how beautiful you are to me
 
and though I know you might not feel the same way
I have a feeling, my feeling's here to stay
 
Maybe someday, if you're not already scooped up
I'll bring you a coffee, we can sit and talk and have a cup
 
and maybe I'll get, that first and final chance
to ask that gorgeous girl to dance
 
but if that never happens, you can add it as a pipe dream
and I'll still be here for you no matter how far I seem
 
and I'll just keep hoping you find what you deserve
and until you ask me for it, my judgment I'll reserve

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What Is a Feeling

Memories, like ghosts, haunt my mind in the dark until I’m searching for light, just a glimpse of a spark.

I can hide this disease with a nod or smile but to explain the damage it causes may take me awhile.

misunderstood or misunderstanding? I can’t tell if I’m falling or, if I am, where I’m landing.

and through this internal struggle I can’t make a sound, just have to put on the show for friends and family around.

you’re the provider, you have to be strong, you must do everything right, you can’t afford to be wrong.

Showing your weakness is no longer an option, you hold tight to the positives whenever you spot them.

manic depression or, “I’m feeling just fine” are all these thoughts malicious or are some benign?

It’s not that I’m upset, guess I don’t really know what I am, how do I decipher my feelings, I need a guide or a plan.

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Concrete Box

What I’m missin is an ego, I don’t put on a big show, if im good at something I know, I bask in my own glow.

I’m an introverted extrovert, a walking contradiction, so if I’m staring into space I’m just wondering where I fit in, or I’m thinking all in rhyme and verse wishing I could pen it.

But in reality I am just what you see theres not much to keep hidden, but my mind is like a concrete box that I am forced to sit in.

The only way to breakout is through writing shit down, the only real way I know to keep my feet on the gound, the only way that I feel my words can make a real sound, and these rhymes are the key to save this dog from his pound.

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Criticize

When I sit and write there's no production or beat
Just this voice in my head and the tap of my feet

You can criticize my rhymes and make fun of my flow
But the fact that you read 'em it just makes my ego grow

You can tell me they're nothing and question there worth
But every poem that I write is like a mental rebirth 

If you think you can do it better I just say "right on"
Cause the second this is competition is the second I'm gone

It's simply therapeutic and I use it as such 
You can argue, dispute it, I don't care all that much

I write about my life and the things I've been through
If it helps you to read them then these poems are for you

So I guess I can sum up the things I'd really like to say
With
If you're here to bring me down I'd rather you just go away

So if you're coming at me hard I think you best turn around
Because I won't let you ruin the peace I have found.