I grew up around here

seven and a half billion minds in fear

I grew up around here

They lash you in public

For being queer

Not meaning to be gothic

But

yeah , i grew up around here

The fittest survive,

They thrive

But the rest never get a chance to feel alive

For two hundred thousand years

We have shed more tears

Than we have killed more peers

In fear

Of the sheer ferocity

And agony

With time we seeked hope,

Answers

Not knowing it would cause disasters

In a desperate attempt to cope

There comes this point in life

Where you do not know that which is okay

And that which is not

In this mystery called life i am caught

Is it not okay to be gay

Or to say that which you want to say

Or pray, to allah

Or messiah?

For I know what power feels like

It makes you childlike

Its a beautiful thing

To it though, one must not cling

For it corrupts you,

Disrupts those around you

Bankrupts you

Erupts out of you

Yet every single one of us

Every single one of us,

Who ever created a fuss

Fails to realize

Or hear cries

See through what they call white lies

To realize that

Maybe we are just humans

And that the things we do are inhuman

And that none of us are superhuman

But what can i say

All i can do is pray

But maybe even that is not okay

I mean at the end of the day

I’m just one of them teenagers

Not a dictator

Or a part of the legislature

I just write stuff

Trying to pretend to act tough

Cause at the end of the day

They can simply put me in handcuffs

Its okay for me to be unheard

Cause everything i say is absurd

And there is no need for my questions to be answered

Because,

I grew up around here

Cause i grew up around here

In this atmosphere of fear