i sorta-kinda
might-possibly
maybe-am
just-almost
hands-down
totally
in love

with *you

I find it easier to do than speaking up.
Staying silent.
It's the option you choose when you are uncomfortable with how life is but is to afraid to change it.

It's the option that will get you in less trouble then speaking your mind and regretting it later.

I stay silent to protect not only me, but others around me as well.
*I stay silent

He didn't need to die to be a ghost
for years he walked these hallways, going unnoticed
he was like a blur to those who passed him
teachers couldn't remember him
No parents to speak of, one day they just never came back.

Average student, never pushing himself
never showing up on anybody's radar
going unnoticed, going unseen
no friends to speak of, no one knew he existed

He was surrounded by hundreds of people
but lived his life not seen
no one saw his tears
no one saw his art
he went unnoticed until the day he died.

Police found him
he couldn't take it anymore
ended it all
he spent his life unnoticed
but he was a brilliant artist
his art was seen
hanging up in some amazing galleries
everyone now knows his name.

we are born a blank canvas
and society paints our portrait
with its brushes of a thousand
rules and regulations
expectations and guidelines
that supposedly make up
who we are supposed
to be.