Since when did I lose my complain card?
My wow my work paid off card
My ******* that was tough card
My I am so tired from all these notes card
My I need to study for 3 tests and do 2 projects card
My I am proud of what I can do and how hard I worked card

Why just rise
When you can ascend
Words we cry
So much meaning to lend

Impact is our goal
To leave craters
All in your soul
With words greater

Don't say what you mean
Mean what you say
Do more than dream
Go beyond pray

Go be heard
Listeners listen
Here is my word
I'm done wishing

Each word impacting
So fast, no friction
Before you even reacting
To my brilliant diction

INCOMING!!!

Here comes the words
Right and left, they're swinging
Each truth you deserve
Even if your ears are ringing

Break ups, break downs
Each one hurting more
Never ending rounds
But giving up ain't yo core

Verse and verse
Line after line
You wanna go in reverse
But you don't lack spine

Each word leaving its impact
Eloquent and poisonous
No time to react
Until its pointless

Why is this spit fire
So bright and strong
Each full of desire
So much I wanna prove wrong

Here I come back
Can't see my passion
As my counter attack
Turns you to ashes

If I walk a thousand miles
Without looking back
And admiring every step

Have I even moved?

I always thought
If I tried hard enough
And always fought
Then it wouldn't be as rough

That if I shattered
My inner demons
I'd hear their pieces clatter
Left for the vermin

But this time when I swung
I didn't realize
It would be me who broke
*and shattered

They ask me why I don't write anymore
I say I don't feel it anymore
They ask what don't I feel
I said it's sadness I don't feel

They are confused now
I say it's ok now
They are confused still
I say nothing still

They say, "Write happy poems"
I think about happy poems
They say, "Cmon, try"
I think why try?

They think it's easy
I wish it was easy
They think happiness is simple
I think, "It's not that simple"

A cage made of bars
Not of steel
Nor of iron
But of the past

Where I dwell and think
I want to leave
And move on
But I stay trapped

It seems so simple
To just get up
And push open the door
So why don't I?