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I never planned to drop out of high school but I never planned on wanting to **** myself either so that’s just how it goes And now I’m in college a year early and I’m watching everyone around me getting into serious relationships and having babies and actually graduating with full scholarships to real universities and moving in together like real grown people starting real lives and here I am still missing you still going to counseling every week and failing my second semester worse than the first here I am having to consider if going to a mental hospital for 6 months is really the only thing ive got left my mother says when I get out I could really start my life you know, have real relationships and not do drugs or have promiscuous *** but what does she really even know about that am I about to find out why the caged bird sings? I turn eighteen in a little over 7 months and I really don’t want to spend the time leading up to that having a prescribed time to eat and take my medication and when to go to sleep this isn’t how life is supposed to be people say it isn’t easy but killing yourself is seen as cowardly well, we didn’t even have a choice of whether we wanted life or not we were just put here because we won the race so don’t talk to me about cowardice
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Mar 1, 2014
Mar 1, 2014 at 10:50 AM UTC
Songs of a (Cowardly) Caged Bird
I never planned to drop out of high school but I never planned on wanting to **** myself either so that’s just how it goes And now I’m in college a year early and I’m watching everyone around me getting into serious relationships and having babies and actually graduating with full scholarships to real universities and moving in together like real grown people starting real lives and here I am still missing you still going to counseling every week and failing my second semester worse than the first here I am having to consider if going to a mental hospital for 6 months is really the only thing ive got left my mother says when I get out I could really start my life you know, have real relationships and not do drugs or have promiscuous *** but what does she really even know about that am I about to find out why the caged bird sings? I turn eighteen in a little over 7 months and I really don’t want to spend the time leading up to that having a prescribed time to eat and take my medication and when to go to sleep this isn’t how life is supposed to be people say it isn’t easy but killing yourself is seen as cowardly well, we didn’t even have a choice of whether we wanted life or not we were just put here because we won the race so don’t talk to me about cowardice
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Mar 1, 2014
Mar 1, 2014 at 10:50 AM UTC
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