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I'm Tired


I'm tired of all this despair the pain still lingers in the air that we breathe and the songs that we sing it never ever leaves. We all put on a mask and pretend that we don't see it but we do. So who will stand up? There's so much misery it's constantly suffocating us all. There sits a child on a street in the rain calling for his mother and calling for his father but they will never come. For his heart will never mend and when his life comes to an end-- who will remember the child in the rain who cried for his parents and cried for the hunger that was slowly killing him. But as we sit in our houses hidden from the pain. We eat like kings and walk like queens-- when in reality we're no better than the boy in the rain the girl in the chains. All the broken children of the world. You see, we're all equal no person is better than the other no person deserves more. The innocent boy tossed out in the rain-- because he didn't "deserve" to be loved or the girl in the chains who didn't "deserve" to be saved. Who has the right to choose what others deserve when everyone is equal? You're no better than the drug dealer on the street or the soldier that lost both legs fighting for you-- or the child in the rain. You see, no one deserves to be treated like nothing-- when in reality they are something. They're incredible and should never give up. So-- to the boy in the rain and the girl in the chains, life might seem unfair it might seem impossible-- it might not even seem worth it but that is now-- keep fighting you're stronger than them stronger than life itself and you won't always be this broken.
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