For You

In school we had to write a slam on our inner emotions, and this is what popped out into my hands

This is for the kids who hide scars under their sleeves, who stay up all night and dream

Dream about what they could be instead of hearing screams

The ones who hide behind their clothing and decide that they won't apply who they really are and cry about who they really want to be

This is for the people who are to scared to dream, and can't see who they want to be

The people who can't see, and don't have peace, but want us to be free

So you can see, everyone is different and needs that one key so they won't have to be absentee

Lovers who try and try only to watch their love die

The competitors who are told to give up and just settle

That you're unfair and have to quit

But we're both unfit

And we don't get it, get that we can be whatever we want to be, and that's legit

But the actions of others are permanent on our souls, and you mess up our goals because we were told, "you'll never be good enough"

And yet we try and try to be fit but we're never good enough for you

This is so you can look at me differently and see that i'm not unfriendly

But yes i'm shy , and i won't lie that i'm scared to meet new people when all the people i meet, are not concert, and turn obsolete

I put my trust in people only to feel shame, and i know most of you are not to name, but when you get raped it's hard to escape from this false image that's been put in your head, and until you're dead, you will never understand why someone would steal your innocence out of pure greed

Or how as a kid, you're forbid from living as a child

Normal kids would go to wonderland, play in the sand, get a damn tan, but i would learn firsthand how to conceal my bruises, cuts, and scars, while all the other kids got to learn to play the guitar

And even then you're not safe at school, being told you were cool when they really think you're a fool, a pack mule. April fools they were so cruel.

Dislocated jaw, spitting on me like i'm nothing, black eyes, cuts and bruises, and all i have to lose is, my dignity, my self respect

Last I checked, you words effect, and wreck the minds of all the innocent new dreamers who just became screamers because they don't know how to deal with the pain of all this shame your actions put us through

We all carry these things inside us that no one else can see, they hold us down like anchors, they drown us out at sea

Even when you have best friends, that you think are till the end, but they never defend your right to commend yourself of anything right, because all you ever did was wrong 

But i tried to help you, and you repaid me by stealing my sanity, all for your vanity, and pleasure.

I was your cure, and you were my disease, i was saving you, but you were killing me

And i know most of you are not to blame, and i take shame in what i became, lame.

So please, let the breeze of someone else's life go free

You don't need to squeeze more, and more out of them at ease

But the impact you have, is like rain on someone else' parade

The permanent thoughts, the everlasting lies, and even you despise your own kind

So for all the kids with scars under their sleeves, the ones that are now afraid to dream

Their just like you and me

So set them free, and don't judge, who they want to be

Author's Note

First slam i've ever written, so if you have criticism please don't be harsh, this was very hard to write and is my inner feelings and basic life story

Reviews

[.......]

This is really good, found it intrguing and insightful

[Acer]

wordings are good, it's too long as a poem's point of view, but loved it. It's a new flash indeed.

[Cosmic kid]

It is amazing, very chilling but insightful. I love it.

[koty bell]

i absolutely loved it very inspiring great work

[no sun]

The only way to express those inner feelings was through Slam Poetry. It was a perfect fit and you wrote it incredibly well. An excellent piece!