A song in the background
Happy smiles on our faces
None making a sound
The car travelled so many places

It happens so quickly
In the blink an eye
You don't even feel sickly
Until you lose th high

The hood had snapped
And made a whoosh
The windshield cracked
I'd been swooshed

We were not hurt
And I said my praise
My mind is on alert
It put me in a craze

Let me share my light
Let me help you fight
The dark demons inside
Please don't hide

Let me be your guide
Let me know you tried
To let me be bright
When you lose sight

Let me be with you
Let me be true
I want you next to me
If only you could see
You are perfectly free
When you are here by me

The little finch wanted to fly
High in the sky
So he did

The little finch whizzed past the clouds
High above any crowds
He soared

The little finch flew up to a home
High past a dome
He dove

The little finch saw a reflection
High past rejection
He smacked

The little finch hit the window
He bounced off the pane
Too scared to feel pain

Freedom is important
Life is important
Choosing is important
Having a voice is important

Taking away rights is wrong
Rules taking away our power is wrong
War over religion is wrong
Division in a family is wrong

Believing that taking away guns will solve crime is a miconception
Taking away your right to defend yourself is baffling
Criminals will still get guns
Guns are to protect you from being hurt or robbed

Having rights protects you from the corrupt government
There are tragedies that happen
And it is proven that gun related crimes go down
But they DO NOT disappear

A perfect world is not what we live in
Utopia is impossible with all the different ideas and beliefs
Even me writing this proves no one agrees on the same thing

I don't need to be agreed with
I don't need a government to dictate what I eat
I don't need restrictions against the way I live my life

I need to be heard by my peers
I need to be heard by my government
I need the power of speech
I need to have good morals and stand by them
I need a place where the rights are not taken away from the people

This country was built by our founding fathers so we were not controlled by the government
This country was made for freedom and morals
This country was made for the honest man
This country was made by your ancestors or
This country was the freedom your ancestors needed

This country was not made for the top 1%

How do you define yourself as an American?

This country is no longer great or proud.
This country has changed drastically from what it was first meant to be

Too many people will hate me for being too young for saying these things
Or being corrupted by parents and peers and youth
I'm still given a voice
I'm important to this country because I'm apart of it

And I will use my power of speech and all of my other birth given rights till they are ripped from my hands and forcibly taken away from me

I hope that day comes with my last dying breath
For I'm going to hate seeing a world that has gone back to the dark ages of serfs and Lords

Walls closing in
Stealing my grin
Betrayed by my feelings
Killing all of the healings
From the past suffocation
Cracking the foundation
Of trust
Creating disgust
For myself and hatred
Because the sacred
Happiness I kept in a box
Was not under chains and locks
Slipping away
Creating decay
Of the house I made  
Now I've laid
And my head has turned dizzy
I've stopped being busy
I know I've fallen back in a rut
And I know in my gut
That I have one place to turn to
So I pray to You

You try
And work
And learn  
And try to be successful
But still you don't
Sleep
Or eat
Or cry
Or breathe
For if you do then you won't be
Someone's child
A friend
A worker
A spouse
Sadly we believe being succesful
Is more important than being healthy
We are so afraid we won't be loved
We don't think that we should
love ourselves
.

Tic toc
Tic toc
Tic toc
That irritable clock
Continues to
Tic toc
Tic toc
Tic toc
Counting down time
Til I'll be nothing but slime
The begrudging noise
Tic toc
Tic toc
Tic toc
Unless it slips away
And the memories of yesterday
Fade
And there is nothing I would trade
For the love of a moment
Where nothing is spoken
And the glimpse of peace
Is not just a tease
But then that moment is stolen
And that bit that was woven
Is unraveled and stretched til you hear
Nothing but
Tic toc
Tic toc
Tic toc
Tic toc....

I go to bed
Too hot to sleep
So I lay there
Under my sheets
My mind starts to drift
And what do I think?
Only of you
My cheeks are pink
I have a huge grin
My stomach starts to flutter
Then panic sets in
I can't think about a boy at this time!
I've gone mad with my thoughts
And surely I have committed no crime
But thoughts can be poison
That tickles your mind
And your emotions deepen
Now I start to think of little things
My mind relaxes
My heart sings
Possibilities are endless
I start to sigh
As I fall asleep careless
About ending time

to be cherished, understood and
loved wholeheartedly
and to in turn love them strongly
with every part of you being

to know you won't understand
but try everyday to be better
to be there when words flounder
so they know they are not Alone

fairy tale love is rare
and true love is too
but to say they are the  same is untrue
one is adult the other a childish dream

yet I long for both
I guess I'm just a hopeless romantic

in
and
out
in
and
out
calming my racing heart by
breathing
in
and
out
in
and
out
and somehow i breathe in
you
and then there is nothing to stop
my breathing you
in
and
out
in
and
out

It happened in an instant
One minute I was waiting
The next
I was caught in your swirling words
Not thinking too clearly
But you caught me
And I feel the familiar little
flutter
And I know I'm ready to fall
My question?
Are you ready to fall too?

It surrounds me
It's around us
Laying in perfect serenity
Together
We lay intertwined
Our souls touching
My hand in yours
A whisper of breath on
My cheek
Those moments etched in
Memory
The moments before the cold
Moments before darkness
Wind whipping away warmth
Emptiness as my hand lays
Alone
Your soul ripped from
Mine
Now I'm cold
And the darkness...
It took you and
It surrounds me
Alone

The blue bike
on the side of the road.
The sky blue bike,
ready to fly.
That's when I asked,
How? Why?
The blue bike crashed,
flying too high.
Now it's abandoned,
waiting there  alone.
Waiting for someone to pick it up,
willing to fly with it again.
So I took the battered blue bike,
and began to fly.

sunshine and
high heels
thrumming music
how do you feel?
pulverized hearts and
love smashed to smithereens
a silver bullet
stops the wolverine
but nothing can stop my love
by any means

it's being away from                  you
it's being [{trapped}] by your thoughts
it's screaming for SOMEONE
Anyone
to understand
i want         l      d
                 o            e
                        v
in the way that is *whole

things i do
things i say
I try
I try
you walk away
i smile
i pray
I TRY
I TRY
you laugh
i cry
but I do
I smile
I look and see
You are the problem
Not me
I like me
I love me
I learn everyday
that i love me this way

.
pitter patter of little feet
pitter patter of a rainy fleet
CRASH BANG! of pots and pans
CRASH BANG! a thunderous band
screech screech from baby boo
screech screech from bird two

i plunge and fall as He beckons me-
bringing nothing but sorrow and self loathing-
it's cold and dark but i keep running
Running-
Running-
i trip and bash my head in-
the stars and darkness swirl around me
but still i am despaired and falling
Falling-
Falling-

Summer dreams,
cast away.
Darkness now,
here to stay
cliche
cliche
cliche
cliche
Dreams are untrue
Darkness rules
Summer is an escape
Fleeting like fate

the grey hoodie girl walked on by
to the store.
i don't know why.
a cop car passed for
the smoke stack had fire
pouring with someone screaming "play it again!"
she walked past with burning desire
to be like the wren
flying - Free -
Oh just let her *be