Futures
Everyone expects you to be a failure.
"No work ethic. Lazy. Irresponsible."
They don't know you.
They don't know how hard you work,
As long as no one is looking.
They don't know how you get in trouble for not doing things
Only because you're doing something else.
"You'll go nowhere in life if you stay like this."
Don't let them make you into themselves.
Let's be our own success, and if we aren't,
At least we're no one else's mistake.
"You're a failure. You can't get anything done for yourself."
Prove them wrong.
Don't let this world wear you down.
We knew from the age of six that we wanted to write.
So write. Pen to paper, write our own trail.
We're already published at sixteen.
I'd love to see how far we are in ten years.
I know that love is hard, it's failed us before.
But, if no one else will, then we must love ourself.
Don't give up on us yet.
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PersonalThemeAbstract
Mostly personal struggle with some universal commentary on self-worth
SparseMeasureDense
Dense with multiple ideas: perception, self-doubt, resilience, identity, love
DarkSentimentBright
Predominantly encouraging and hopeful despite addressing negativity and failure
StillEnergyExplosive
Urgent imperative voice with exclamatory declarations and confrontational tone
MicroLengthEpic
19 lines falls within 16-30 range
PlainFigurativeOrnamented
Minimal figurative language; mostly direct statements with light metaphorical language
LyricVoiceDramatic
Lyric internal voice with collective 'we' addressing shared experience, not narrative
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