I just want to inspire,
I remember coming here last year,
And **** did I admire,
The kids who got up,
And had the guts to speak,
Because I thought my voice was weak,
I just needed to find my time,
And it's so cliché but my time is now
And I'm going to own it
It's just like Carter said on the first day
"We're a little bit of this and a little bit of that"
Well I'm a little bit brave
And a little bit afraid
But I am one hundred percent trying to reach you
I want you to
Scream out
If you are afraid
You will never know what you are made of
Till you at least try
There are unspoken afraid poets
Dreamers
Believers
Go getters
Waiting for a sign
Look no further
Your sign is right here, right now
Go, find your voice use it
Grab a pen, a pencil, chalk, anything, write it
Speak out!
I don't want to just reach the afraid
I want to praise the brave
The Spoken brave poets
The never silent
The achieving
The do-ers
You found your voice
You got out there
Your speaking
Writing out
My goal is to inspire
Because **** I want to admire
your spoken words
your written words
Your will be words
Waiting to exist
You poets
Will be poets
It your time,
so stop waiting,
Own it
Oct 16, 2014
Oct 16, 2014 at 9:34 PM UTC
I just want to inspire,
I remember coming here last year,
And **** did I admire,
The kids who got up,
And had the guts to speak,
Because I thought my voice was weak,
I just needed to find my time,
And it's so cliché but my time is now
And I'm going to own it
It's just like Carter said on the first day
"We're a little bit of this and a little bit of that"
Well I'm a little bit brave
And a little bit afraid
But I am one hundred percent trying to reach you
I want you to
Scream out
If you are afraid
You will never know what you are made of
Till you at least try
There are unspoken afraid poets
Dreamers
Believers
Go getters
Waiting for a sign
Look no further
Your sign is right here, right now
Go, find your voice use it
Grab a pen, a pencil, chalk, anything, write it
Speak out!
I don't want to just reach the afraid
I want to praise the brave
The Spoken brave poets
The never silent
The achieving
The do-ers
You found your voice
You got out there
Your speaking
Writing out
My goal is to inspire
Because **** I want to admire
your spoken words
your written words
Your will be words
Waiting to exist
You poets
Will be poets
It your time,
so stop waiting,
Own it
I get to speak at my schools poetry festival with many other great writers, and this is my piece I'm going to perform.
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