I'm saying something about nothing or is it the other way around? Am I staring at the ceiling or gazing at the ground?
Round and round in circles is all I ever go My schedule ever changing, and I don't know how to
SEW
Back up the pieces The ones that I have lost, Maybe there's a line: One that I have crossed.
Maybe I did nothing but something's what I've done I'll never know until I stop and I can't stop because I have to
MOP
Up all the slices of a life I left behind, I think I might be crazy But I'm not out of my
MIND
Your manners, Do your chores, Catch up on that homework, Patch up all your wars
Never ending, Always going, It's not even slowing down, I think I'm gonna
HURL
My cares unto the world, I just don't give a **** anymore
I'm saying nothing about something, or is it the other way around?
This poem goes in circles, but to this poem I am
BOUND
To end up somewhere Where I feel that I belong, It's just so hard to trust these days when you just seem
WRONG
Is what I seem to be Every single time I speak, They always tell me what to do And never twice to
THINK
I'm saying nothing about something Switch it around and you will see:
Even though they call me "normal" I will only be able To be
ME
Author's Note: I wrote this in the 8th grade, and is still one of my favorite poems that I've written to date. It also embodies my struggle as a young teen trying to find myself (as so many other adolescents have). It's the teen angst story, and it just sings to me when I look back at this poem. It makes me realize also how much I've grown since that time in my life.