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Alex McDaniel Aug 2013
Youth is a ****** up place.
We walk around with the blind fold of adolescence covering our eyes.
Nine times out of ten you'll step the wrong way and fall of the edge.
The most ****** up thing about youth,
Is the labels.
People judge you,
You judge them,
Creating an instant stand still of insecurity and intimidation.
A lot of stress can come from the labels you but on other people,
But sometimes we forget to look at the labels we are putting on ourselves.
We try so hard to fit in,
To be something we aren't.
We want to have the same label that everyone else has,
And society accepts it.
But why not be different,
Why not stand out,
Why not stand up for something you believe in,
Something that you can call your own,
Why not,
Be yourself.
Alex McDaniel Aug 2013
He fell in love with the girl who's eyes burned with desire

He should have listened to mother when she told him not to play with fire.
Alex McDaniel Aug 2013
Her broken heart cries out to me,
If only you could see,
That ingesting those pills,
From the devils plea
Hurt more than you,
It hurt her,
And involuntarily
Me....
So much rhyming of one sound, i'm not sure if that's bad or not
Alex McDaniel Aug 2013
Pain,
Is not something to mess around with.

Pain can be compared to a knife,
That dangles from the ceiling, every night while you sleep,
The only thing that’s stoping it from piercing your insides?
A simple thin thread.

It does not take much for the thread to
Snap,
Along with it snapping every little bit of strength you had left,
Don’t mess with pain.

Then there is,
Love

Love can be compared to the blanket on your bed,
It wants to project you from the knife,
It tries its best to cover you from the pain,
But it is only a blanket.

As much as it wants to help,
To reach out,
To be there,
It simply is not strong enough.

Though sometimes,
If you give love a chance,
It can be steel,
So don’t mess with love.
Alex McDaniel Aug 2013
Red
Reality throws him through the wind shield,
Every glass shard that pierces his body is like a slap in the face, a stab in back,
Theft of his dignity.
As blood begins to rush out,
So do the memories.
Distant memories,
But just as fresh and painful,
As they were just a few years ago.
He wants to get up,
He needs to move on,
He dreams of picking himself off the pavement,
Covering all the wounds,
Forgetting everything.
But as he lays on the side of the road,
Drowning himself in the pool of cold  regret that has formed around him,
He looks up,
And all he can see,
Is red..
For any one who can't let go of the past
Alex McDaniel Aug 2013
I want to take a summer, maybe even a year and travel the world, go every where to all the different places and maybe some where along the way find myself, or at least what I want to be, because if you can experience every single emotion, condition, food, weather and type of person there is in the world and you can form opinions on all these then combined them you can maybe figure out what type of person are or want to become. Maybe you have to experience the darkest, lowest part of life where you are alone and stomped down to nothing to realize who you are. Because you cannot know happiness if you are never sad.
Alex McDaniel Aug 2013
How we are so scared of the darkness covering the night sky,
That we never stop to count the stars.
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