You Dragged me out this far
Just to Push me to a new fate tomorrow
Push, Pull, Drag, Shove, Wrench, Tear
Don't You Care
I am playing tug-o-war with my destiny
You want one, I want the other
I plant my feet down at home, you move me into an unknown mystery
I tried to stay, you made me leave, I grew to love that unknown place
But that doesn't mean, you can lure me into a new space
I will still stand strong
You won't knock me down
Longer, longer, longer, long
Days pass
The time draws near
I think of excuse and'reason
But I can't say that I share
Your brute qualities of unforgivableness
No Matter
I shall not be pushed, pulled, shoved, dragged, wrenched, tore
Not Again.
Time after Time
Don't I have a say?
No.
Not Again.

Life
It is a simple word
Yet it holds so much meaning
People use it everyday in many ways
But most people don't know what it means
After being alive so long you would think that you know what it is
Or maybe you do know what it is once you reach the age 70
As newborn babies we are ****** with life yet it came with no instructions
We try to make do with it
And in the end its all we ever know

Death
It often goes along with Life
And after a while we realize that death is part of life
You cannot avoid it, or change what it is
Just like you can't avoid eating delicious food when it is placed in front of you
You must be willing to let go of the life you had planned in order to live the life that is waiting for you

What has happened to this day
It used to be so magical
Christmas, it's called
And yesterday was Christmas Eve
I used to laugh and play
Always dreaming of today
When Santa Claus Came
And all my family came home
We would go out to dinner
And then go to sleep before Santa passed our house
I would wake up so early just to stare at the presents
Now I dream of today
Imagining all those times in the past
When I would open the presents, and my family
I would feel magical
Like nothing in world could ever bring me down
But when the time comes
And we go out to dinner
And dress all fancy
Trying to feel magical
It ends up being
Not so amazing
Our conversation turning to the more depressing subjects in life
Then on Christmas morning
When I wake up late
And go to the Christmas tree
And wait to open presents
But once that's done what is left
Except to sit and play
So to this day i sit and wonder
What has happened to this wonderful holiday
Has all the tradition turned to dust
And is it only about the presents, the food, and what we want
Has the spirit of giving disapeered
To be replaced by a spirit filled with greed?

What has man done?
we have built skyscrapers
that seem to go on to the heavens
yet mountains are taller

we have made airplanes
so we can fly high in the sky
yet birds fly higher

we have built roads
so we can drive anywhere we want
yet volcanoes sizzle them, hurricanes block them, and avalanches take them out

we have built houses
so that we will always be warm
yet a good storm can knock em' down

we move from place to place
just because we can
yet while we have to stop sometime, clouds never stop moving and the earth never stops spinning

we take up the entire world
because we are so great
yet the world is still bigger

The cold snow welcomes her
Envelopes her body
She sighs, fighting with herself
Who should win?
Life has been so harsh for her, the excitement is wearing thin
Yet if she did not have a purpose, why would she be here?
In the end she lets the snow win, because she has no fear
She loses herself in the cold
Always and forever to its power
It kidnaps her, and takes her to its lair
And never gives her back

And never gives me back

12 hours
Thats all I have
To do the impossible
To get my homework done

12 hours
Thats all I have
To clean my room
And do my homework
While still get a good grades

12 hours
Thats all I have
To get done what needs to get done
But I really don't want to
I really just want to watch TV

12 hours
Have never seemed so long
How long do I have to pretend I'm about to work
Before I actually do
Why do teachers torture me so?

At the Coffee Shop I saw a man
I saw a man and guessed his story
He had dark circles beneath his eyes
And he looked like a dead man in his faded black suit
He rubbed his forehead as he sat down
And his eyes seemed far away when he ordered his coffee
He ordered a double shot expresso
That says a lot about a man

As I was leaving I stopped to say goodbye
I figured he could use some friendliness today
Instead of saying goodbye I said hello
And he told me his story
So I told him mine

And to this day I spend everyday thinking about him
About his story
About mine
About his story of a divorce, a child sent to jail, being fired
Then going to the Coffee Shop and seeing a woman
A woman who looked like she could use a break
From work, from stress, from broken love affairs
He geussed her story
And she geussed his
She suprised him though
By stopping to say hello
And then he went on to marry her
And together they were happy
She got a break from stress and broken love affairs
And he got a break from his empty heart and loneliness

Footsteps, all around
The world is spinning, or is that me?
I see him come, but it's too late
He drags out me out there
To that dark dark place
Where no one will see me
Where no one will see him
The trees tower above me
Like demeaning spirits
I turn around
And let out a gasp
Then something sharp pierces my heart
And the world starts to fade
I let out a cry
My cry
The only cry
The cry that is not heard
It barely escapes my mouth
Before I am swallowed up by darkness

A snifle at midnight
An unheard cry
My thoughts wander to that place I left
That wonderful place
The place I call my home

My heart aches
My mind cries
But I shove it all away
So no one will know my misery
So no one will know my pain

What is life if not to die
You live your life living
Only to end it all
In one single second your life is gone
All your years of work
Disapear in a flash

What is life if not to die
You spend your life dreading
That one single day
Then when it comes
All that time you spent dreading
Is gone in the past

What is life if not to die
All your life is wasted
All in one moment
One dreadful moment
And all is lost
Never to be had again
Not even yourself

The wind rattles the shutters beside me
It is impossible to sleep
Our house shakes as it threatens to collapse
The once calm, glasslike bay forms giant waves
My favorite beach has disappeared
It is midnight, time to sleep
I glance out the window and see a shadow
It moves and shakes as it threatens to barge in through my window
Falling asleep, the hissing of the wind penetrates my dreams
Like a policeman blowing his whistle
Only it's not
I wake suddenly and hear a crash
Running downstairs to see what has happened I trip
Now unable to see the fallen power line and the tree that has already Began to fall
Sprawled on the floor i hear the boom
Scrambling to get up i see the car that has crushed my neighbors car
When will this end?

I walk along the empty beach
Picking up seashells within my reach
The air around me holds an empty stillness
As people realize our worlds illness

It's too late to take back our mistake
This time we poisoned the ocean with venom like a snake
We cannot take back what we have done
Or sit idly in the sun

We must take action
We must react to this reaction
Or else animals will die
Or else we will die

Hello all
Dead and alive
I am never to see you again
This is my letter, my goodbye
Because after this
I am no more

Remember the river
So cold to swim in
Remember the mountain
So fun to ski down
Remember the town
So quiet and small
They are no more

Remember the Winter
So cold and snowy
Remember the Summer
So hot and dry
Remember the lake
So cold and refreshing
Remember the fire
So warm and cozy
They are no more

Now I say goodbye
To the winter, the summer
To the river, the lake
To the fireside and the town
The place I grew up
But am leaving now
For I am no more

I take one step
I look around
Nobody sees me
I am invisible

I take two steps
I look around
People look away
I wish I was invisible

I take three steps
I am out in the open now
A book for people to read
I want to be invisible

I take four steps
I look around
People see me
People accept me

I take four steps
I look around
People see me
People draw away

I take five steps and am gone
I went too far
I am now an outcast
I shrink back to an Invisible

I gaze into the big blue sky
And see an open canvas
For me to paint a picture, a world

A world for me to retreat to
A place where dreams come true
A place where anything can happen
Where there are no limits to imagination

And as I lie there, in my bed of grass
I begin to drift away
I begin the perilous journey
Of going to my dreamland

Here is a riddle:

I am green and blue, hot and cold
I am mother of all living things, even mold
I love you, and you love me
Without me, you would die

Without my big great fields and icy mountains
Without my hot deserts with mosquitos that bite your fins
Without my rain forests that house endangered species
Without my poison berries that give you horrible feces
Admit it, you wouldn't want to live without me

So why, I ask, do you do everything you can
You use your fancy catamarans
That to keep well kept, kills me
Why do you cut down my trees, and leave me bald
Why do you pollute my air with your cars that have already mauled
My beautiful deer, bears, and goats

Without me you wouldn't be alive, you wouldn't be breathing
The way you act leaves me seething
But I am helpless against your tyrannical ways
Because I love you, and beg for you to raise
Raise awareness, and care, love and compassion
For your mother, your mother of all things

You know who I am
What I am
And who you are
So please, when you **** me, you **** yourself

You come to me to seek relief
For your plan will not work if in it you turn into a leaf
Taking over the world is easy, but only if you are me
You must be as awesome as a possum and as agile as a bee

You have to have super ninja skills
And a theme song that kills
You must be a child, because adults over 30
Are not quite as amazing, as Marleigh and me

Marpoo is my buddy
She is a little bit nutty
She is awesome as a possum, but not as much as me
She and I together are the team of awesome monkeys who are going to take over the world....-y

A chocolate bar and milk
Hot coco and marshmellows
White chocolate and Dove Silk milk chocolate
Burnt trees and fresh snow
Me and my friend Zo
Black and white
White and black

This bathroom vs. that one
The front of the bus vs. the back
This school vs. that one
My house vs. that shack
Black and white
White and black

Now you mix chocolate and vanilla together
To make chocolate-vanilla swirl pudding
Like people, you try to mix it up
But in the end, there is silent discrimination
A clear line between Black and White
You can still see the chocolate mixed in with the vanilla
Just like chocolate-vanilla swirl pudding

I live in a world made up of rejects
A world full people who are different than those perfects
An odd habit here, a weird thought there
I don't like it, and I know it's not fair
But it is my home

And if you try to take me from my world, from my home
As They are doing now
I will make you scream, I will make you moan
Because really the freaks that are my friends are the perfect ones
And you are the rejects

So please, don't make me face the people who hate me
Why are you doing this
I had a good life at home
And now I have to try
To become "perfect" because of you
Because of the house that you want to be my new home
Because of the school that you want me to be in
Because you want me to perfect

But I'm not

People say I need an education
That it is good for me
They say education is the best ******* thing in the world
They are blind
They don't see what education is doing to us
But I do

I see people going to work all day everyday
Then going on vacation and working on their blackberrys in the tropics
And me, I go to school all day
And come home to more school at home
Little 'take home' work
I get excited to go on vacation
For what?
I go on vacation just to tell curious strangers about school

I see people tearing their hair out because a report is due the next day
I see people miss their best friend's birthday because they had to work
I see people cancel vacation so that they can work
I see people lose sleep because they are stressed

So you see that this amazing thing called education is killing us
But you don't, because if you did you would do something
They all think I am a juvenile because I refuse to go to collage, to get a good job
But I know that it will be me that lives a happy life

A pen and paper and all the time in the world
A head filled with a million words, but none that work
I sit there struggling to put pen to paper
I know what I want to write, but I can't
I can't find the right words in my library of words
Nothing is right

Splish splash
The waves crash on the sandy shore
Attracted to the ground up rocks
Like children to lollipops
Or bees to flowers.

Splish splash
The waves are getting fierce
Rain is starting to pour
Like a child with a hose
Spraying their brother on a warm summer day.

Splish splash
The waves are like skyscrapers
Towering above me
Maybe I should go; I’m all alone now.

Splish splash
The waves have formed into one
One giant wave covering my island
I run away, up the mountain.

Splish splash
The devastation is done
The buildings lie everywhere
So do the bodies
I am the only survivor.

Why
Why did I survive and not the wise old man down the street
Why not the old merchant who only sold oranges and beets
What would father say?

I know
I know what he would say
He would say, “Because you are you and no one else is you. That’s why you survived.”
Now he is gone

Splish splash
The waves are calm again
Attracted to the sandy shore
Like children to lollipops
Or bees to flowers

The smell of sweet roses on a warm afternoon
The sun is shining and the pond sparkles like a million diamonds
Can life get better then this?

A warm fire on a cold winter night
A cup of hot chocolate, with white floating islands
Can life get any better then this?

A cool ocean breeze on my own private beach
With dolphins and turtles popping up to say hi
Can life get any better then this?

No, I don't think it can.

I used to be an innocent laughing child
Now I laugh at laughing children.
What happened to me?

I used to be a bird flying high
Now I am the hunter who shoots them down.
What happened to me?

I used to be a sleeping baby, with not a care in the world
Now I am a juvenile with a dark look at life.
What happened to me?

I used to be so happy, nothing could bring me down
Now I feel depressed, life isn't fair.
I might as well die.
What happened to me?

I am like an icicle, cutting an innocent passerby
That happens to be standing right under me at the worst possible time.

Iam like a viper, lashing out at the unfortunite witness
That tortures souls that need no torturing
That already have enough in their life.

I am like a murderer, who has no mercy
Who strikes with a knife, to whoever happens to be there.

When did this all happen, when did I become this way
Now I remember, it's when you tear me apart
With an "innocent" comment
But a comment that burns.

A comment that is like acid on my heart
That tells of the abysmal life that you led me to lead
It's like a reassuring hug that suddenly turns on you
Why did you do this to me?

Wings spread wide
They beat in an endless sky
Daring others to a challenge
The great ruler of the blue expanse

A rumble in his throat
A fierce cry in the night
The enemy returns to his perch
Crying in fright
The great ruler of the blue expanse

A weak and feeble cry
From the bald birds's heir
'I'm hungry' it says
No need to fear, I've got you covered
Now open up that beak
My baby ruler of the blue expanse

My old friends disapear
Struggling to find an other
In a sea of strange new peers

My old house is gone
With intruders making it a home
Now I must try
To make a new life
In a new place