Take a stand do not back down,
If you don't see the problem take a look around.
Open your eyes to what's been in our face for years,
I will never understand your pain or everyday fears.
But I stand beside you with eyes full of tears.
The color of our skin should not determine whether we live or die,
The color of our skin should not separate you and I.
Our world is sick and I'm praying for a cure
So that people of all colors can walk the streets feeling secure.
People are dying by the very people there to protect us,
This is Injustice and I pray this will connect us.
Black, white , purple or green,
Let us all come together and show up to the scene.
We can become one and spark a change,
Heart to heart, hand to hand exchange.
The evil in the world makes my heart shatter,
When will you all understand that black lives matter?
Jun 20, 2020
Jun 20, 2020 at 7:46 AM UTC
Dark skies in the AM from two to four,
The only time I get to myself any more.
Blurry vision and a scattered thought,
Every moment, every memory I never forgot.
The games they play and the hearts that stay,
The friends I keep and the lack of the sleep.
Alone I sit alone I deal,
Alone I hurt alone I feel.
From two to four,
I sit and explore.
My head nodding my body wants to rest,
A troubled spirit constantly stressed.
Will I get better? Will I be okay?
People ask but do they care what I say?
The world's sound asleep as I lay awake,
Thinking of everything every single mistake.
Tears with the smokey cloud of vapor,
From two to four I pray to my maker.
I wonder if he even sees me,
Maybe i'm not clear enough to see.
A soul crying a certain tragedy.
Jun 11, 2020
Jun 11, 2020 at 8:53 AM UTC
While everyone else takes a few steps I have to take a mile,
I'm just not myself and I haven't been in a while.
Sometimes I need a friend to be there,
Sometimes I need someone to really care.
When I get the courage to open up about how I feel inside I get left on read,
It may not be how you meant it but its like it doesn't even matter what I just said.
I'm really crying out for help but no one is hearing me,
This feeling I have daily is starting to put the fear in me.
I need someone to care enough to want to know why,
Why I'm always alone and why I always cry.
At the same time I don't want to bring anyone down to my negative state,
Honestly I don't know what's wrong with me or how to deal with everything on my plate.
I don't know how to ask for help cause I always handled things on my own,
All the right ways everyone else learned I was never shown.
I don't want to be the sad part of someone's day,
Because you are so happy I don't want to get in the way.
I don't know how long I can keep pretending to be okay.
I'm loosing my joy of doing things I used to love to do,
Like seeing my best friends or the dreams I wanted to pursue.
I feel like a bad friend I feel left out,
My voice is silent but inside I'm ready to shout.
I wanna be me I wanna be there.
Like I was before I became this empty shell of who I was not too long ago,
It's like the love I have for my friends and family it's hard to show.
It's like it's easier for me not to even go.
I don't even know how to explain myself and I don't wanna loose anyone,
I feel like people are giving up on me and I don't wanna be done.
My love hasn't changed for anyone except my love for me,
I'm trying so hard to ignore it that it's making itself louder to see.
I can't hide it any more I pray I don't stay this way,
I can't make any one understand by anything that I say.
All they can see is that I am not there,
Trust me it doesn't mean that I do not care.
I do more than anything I just can't show it,
Something inside isn't right and I know it.
This isn't me I'm not this girl who is absent with her friends,
I don't want to be the reason our friendship ends.
Who wants to be with someone who can't even enjoy their company,
Who wants to be around someone who makes them feel uncomfortably.
Most of the time I don't want people to be around me because I am miserable,
I don't like making people feel sad for me because what I feel is visible.
So I stay to myself praying someone makes me feel okay to not be okay,
Sometimes I pray for someone to help me open up with what I need to say.
Honestly I shut it off for so long I don't even know what that is any more,
I am just so confused on what to do and my presence has became a revolving door.
Please don't give up on me I need y'all the most right now, I really am trying,
I just need time to find the problem I'm having such a hard time identifying.
I go back and forth with wanting someone to listen,
Sometimes it's easier not having to talk about what's missin.
It's clear that I don't know what I need, space or a friend,
It's like I wouldn't even know where to begin.
I know I'm not there as much as I should be,
Please just give me time and pray for me.
Oct 23, 2019
Oct 23, 2019 at 11:43 PM UTC
No I can't deal with this today,
No matter what I say,
What's the problem? Make it go away.
Everybody wants a yes person a yes man.
I used to think I could bless them in my plan,
The plan to make everything and everyone okay.
Even if it left me crying in bathrooms at night,
Just sitting there contemplating my ability to fight,
No I'm not okay, I'm not ******* alright.
I need a day without everything weighting me down,
I need a moment for self care, I need everyone to stop being around.
I don't mean to be rude I'm just trying to breathe.
All my dreams I've spent a lifetime learning to grieve.
I'm 29 years old and what is there to show for it?
I have nothing. I don't have a driver's license, I don't even own a car,
My hopes to becoming someone I'm proud of seems, so **** far.
I don't have my own place, I don't even own a **** bed!
Last thing I need, is some **** space in my own head!
I worry about you I worry about them but I never get to worry,.. about ME...?
I worry about that job, I worry about THE job,
I worry about it all.
But when I'm down, depressed, broken and drained.
Who worries about me?
Does anyone worry about me?
Maybe it's my state of mind and I'm too blind to see.
Sleep don't come easily and mornings come too soon
I fail I fail, no glory here, from where from whom?
A past that proves it defines me every chance I get to be free from it's embrace,
Every time I'm close to happy it stops me in my tracks and laughs in my face.
No job can trust, old wounds family bust.
I am changed, I am changing. To the world I'm still that girl in her 20s throwing her life away.
Maybe I am, look at the life I do have now
Do you see anyone that's willing to stay?
Look at my life now, do you see a happy person?
Cause in my reflection I see pain that's worsened.
Look at my life now, do you see any decent employers taking a chance on me?
At any place that doesn't have meals starting 15 dollars and the kids eating free?
Look at my life now, do you see a girl becoming who she truly wants to be?
Nah I don't recognize this girl in the mirror I see.
Nah this girl... couldn't be me...?
Look at my life and tell me what you see
Yeah maybe I am this girl,
and maybe it will always be me.
Oct 21, 2019
Oct 21, 2019 at 3:02 PM UTC
Every day I'm fighting a battle within,
I'll try to explain but I don't know where to begin.
Mentally struggling with my mind and thoughts,
My heart races and my stomach stays in knots.
Everyone thinks I should just try more,
But I try every day just to pick myself up off the floor.
They don't understand me, it's hard to explain,
My every day struggle of just trying to feel sane.
Motivation has vanished from my spirit,
My cry for help, no one seems to hear it.
Emotional scars blind to the naked eye,
The only one who can see it is me, myself and I.
How can you explain what you can't see?
When it's all too real, deep inside of me.
I feel trapped inside a hell storm,
Unable to get back to the societies norm.
Explaining the battle within myself is almost ineffectual,
I might as well leave it to your intellectual.
Hoping that you understand to the fullest,
The pain that hits my spirit like raining bullets.
Sep 14, 2019
Sep 14, 2019 at 1:12 AM UTC
I don't know how I got here
Back in this head space
I tried to avoid it so many times
Yet I'm right back at the same place.
I don't want to fail
I don't want to break
I don't want to do something I'll regret
I don't want to make a mistake.
My days are slow
They are painful
I don't know how much time I have
I don't know how to be thankful.
Peaceful sleep never comes any more
Smiles don't brighten my eyes
I feel hopeless and stuck in the lows
Searching for the highs.
No I don't mean drugs
I mean the moments when I breathe
When I'm not stuck
Full of sadness that begins to seethe.
Bright stars I do not gaze
Friends I do not call
Never in my life
Have I ever felt so small.
I can't fix the problems I own
All the best parts of me
I've seemed to outgrown.
I don't want to gain
I don't want to loose
For all I can do is be still
In life I won't have to choose.
I'm not okay
I'm not alright
I am tired
I don't want to fight.
"Get up!" I scream inside
But I can not move an inch
As if I'm stuck in a nightmare
In need of a pinch.
This is not real
I have to move
Nothing's going to change
Nothing's going to improve.
All the space of life
The pain begins to take up
I can't stay this way
I have to wake up.
Sep 8, 2019
Sep 8, 2019 at 7:41 PM UTC
Why is it when you speak, I listen to what is said,
But when I speak my truth, I get left on read.
All these games, they starting to **** with my head.
What happens to our love, if it never gets fed?
I don't wanna think about mornings without you,
I don't wanna think about nights without you,
Honestly, really, I don't wanna think thoughts about you.
Yet I do every single day it's you, I crave,
My friends saying it's okay to leave, be brave.
It's not so easy, ugh it's not so easy to walk away,
Without ever getting the chance, to speak what I need to say.
So listen you hurt me. You hurt me so deep,
What we used to have, I thought was ours to keep.
We don't connect any more, we don't agree,
Right or left? One, two, or three?
Maybe something more simple, like you and me?
One foot in and one foot out,
Seems to be what your all about.
I need communication,
I need contentment,
**** I just need some **** commitment.
We're not in highschool, we are not children,
If your not all in, then what are we buildin?
Throw the games away, take away the rules,
Grow with me, stop listening to these fools.
Why do we have the same **** fight every **** day?
I've reached my limit, at this point I need a reason to stay.
Sep 7, 2019
Sep 7, 2019 at 8:16 PM UTC
Man I don't know what's going on with me.
It's like I'm stuck in this mental hell and I don't want to be.
Honestly I'm just trying to keep going with it,
I could be dying inside but I never let you see it.
Weak one? No I'll never be it..
Life has a funny way of showing up on you.
Like **** I was fine now I don't know what to do.
I'm crying I'm sighin,
I'm moving with pain,
I'm just trying to keep going with whatever motivation remain.
I been through it all
I felt every major fall.
And I did it on my own,
**** everyone yet don't wanna feel alone..
**** What happened to the peace?
On god this got me feeling in need of a release.
But I'm ok, I'm fine.
My past stuck on replay
But I'm ok, I'm fine.
No need to press rewind.
I pretend to smile so you'll be okay,
I pretend I'm fine so you have a good day.
All of this emotional **** I'm really starting to feel faint,
**** this **** get lonely,
After a minute of trying to be happy when you ain't..
When everyone is expecting you to rise and don't understand when you don't,
But I promise I'm not giving up,
I promise I won't.
Another day, another issue,
I just pick my head up and grab a tissue.
I'll be okay I promise in time I'll be,
Until then I'm moving forward just so you can see.
Don't worry no dirt on my name,
I'm still Haley I'm still the same.
Just a little broken just a little down,
But I'm gonna make you smile when I come around.
Sometimes the people who hurt the most show it the least,
Humor at it's best and pain hidden like a beast.
I can't hold it in all the time,
It's not a race it's a climb.
Stay woke to what you blind to,
People really taking their lives,
This ain't a game out here,
Off your pain that devil thrives.
Listen with your heart,
You never know when you're gonna be apart.
If you care show it, if you mad own it.
You only get one chance, live it.
Now I don't know where I'm going with this,
Just tryna make sense of all of this.
**** I don't know why I stay in my head,
From wake up to going to bed.
There's not much to share than what's already been said.
Theres not much to think than what's already been in my head.
I'm trying to find the reason I feel so bad,
It's like my light getting dimmer and I'm loosing what I had.
Maybe it's anxiety? Maybe it's depression?
Never thought how I feel would be something I question.
****
This got a little too real and I'm not ready to deal,
I got too much going on with everything that I feel.
But why am I crying?
Why sometimes I feel like I gotta give up trying?
Why is my world so dark from the light?
Something needs to change man..
Something ain't right.
It's not okay that I'm giving up the fight.
So here I go again picking up the pieces I've torn apart,
Nothing but a struggle when my life story start.
Is it worth the pain though?
****
I really don't know..
Sep 3, 2019
Sep 3, 2019 at 11:42 AM UTC
You said dry your eyes and you promised that you wouldn't leave me,
But man how times have changed..
You made it look so easy.
It's like someone set a bomb off inside my chest,
You steady played me..
I guess you lied when you said you're not like the rest...?
I wanted more, you wanted space,
My thoughts were cloudy and my heart began to race.
We was so close but there were so many signs of danger,
Next thing I knew..
We somehow became strangers.
I'm not used to that,
I'm not used to hearing you say that you don't love me,
I'm not used to you putting everything and everyone above me.
**** you could have spoken to me..
I would have respected you a lot more,
But now I'm just stuck with this image of you walking out the door.
What happened to us being able to communicate?
All those times I gave you my last..
You didn't stop to appreciate.
I felt it before you slipped.
I felt the pain from miles away...
No matter how in denial I was I knew it would happen one day.
Then it did and it hit my heart heavy,
How can I keep my balance when we ain't even steady??
We're not on the same page, we are well off track..
The person I fell for I prayed for her to come back.
Man what a year it's been,
Losing everything I loved trying to find myself within.
But **** you made it look so easy not to care,
I wish I could forget all the feelings that are still there.
Aug 20, 2019
Aug 20, 2019 at 12:02 AM UTC
No light shining through my home..
No space for me to roam.
I dream of the day..
I can fly away..
I stay flying around in my 32 inch tall cage..
Plucking my feathers, full of rage.
Unfulfilling an animal to it's nature
A form of torture..
Don't come near me I'll bite..
Company I do not invite.
Inside my confinement is no sight.
But my swing that has succumbed to old age.
But I'm just a bird..
Stuck in a cage.
Aug 13, 2019
Aug 13, 2019 at 2:44 AM UTC