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 Feb 2014 Di
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It's late
 Feb 2014 Di
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I am up late
Doing homework
Of course.
I wonder sometimes
Where our priorities should be.
Is it really more important
To do some school-work
Than it is to get even
7 hours of sleep?
3 hours less than an average teen needs?
I'm tired
But I should keep working.
Yes, I know that plenty of people are up all night...  I'm just frustrated.  I need a time-turner.
 Dec 2013 Di
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And I wait
 Dec 2013 Di
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I wait
And I wait
Again I wait
What else is there to life
Than waiting for the next thing?
How do we go on without something to wait for?
Hope is more important
And faith is waiting based on hope
Hopefully the wait is long
But we always want it short
Instant gratification
But we don't buy items
We buy anticipation
Our money is for the drive home
For fumbling around to plug the television in
And waiting for it to turn on.
And instantly, we are on to the next thing
 Dec 2013 Di
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Whatever.
 Dec 2013 Di
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So it seems that
The popular opinion
Is that not being desensitized is some flaw.
That when pressured to see things I hate I should just
Be quiet?
And that I should be reminded constantly that I am a terrible person
Because I am sensitive.
"It's just a movie."
...
So?
It's not my fault it makes me feel horrible inside!
I want to participate
But if I say how I feel honestly, I get
"Of course."
"You're always like this!"
I know I am
I don't try to.
"You're always against everything,"
I'm sorry for my views.
That's who I am.
But I can try to change, if it's what you really want.
...
Sorry.
I hate it when I get so worked up that I am shaking.  Whatever.  I don't want to read any comments on this.  I'm sure I'll hurt someone's feelings.  I'm sorry.  I know I have issues, and I'll try to work on it...  It just isn't easy for me.
 Nov 2013 Di
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The King
 Nov 2013 Di
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You are your destruction
You break apart, and others are to blame
Right?
It may be so
You might be ruined by others
Broken by their beliefs
But that is not all their fault
Nobody should apologize for who they are
The only one who can let you be hurt
Is you.
 Nov 2013 Di
Yates
I pledge allegiance to a country that's done nothing for me.
I pledge allegiance to this ticking corporate time bomb, counting down the number of people left outside of its marketing cage.

Tick tock
Tick tock
Tick tock


Clock counting down the number of days left until a new order passes, tying us tighter to the system we all say we want to avoid, the system hiding in the shadows of everything we do.

I pledge allegiance to "by the people for the people" turned "by the people for the money" because that's the fuel of the freedom we value so highly as to put a price on it, as if that's a measure of its worth.

I pledge allegiance to impossible standards laid out in HD clarity on screens too far from reality to reach, sending the message that worth is now measured by a number on a scale instead of what's in your heart.

I will no longer pledge allegiance this false sense of truth hiding behind a mask of lies,

Instead I'll pledge allegiance to the memory of one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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