Press Play

Holding the thick black tape recorder your life is at your hands. With the ability to move forward but the rewind button contains broken bands. This apparatus is yours to keep. To stop, play and go forward but when the world around you becomes a violent never ending it becomes a dark room, to the blind. People are afraid to rise above the rest We wait for the brave kind to break the silence But when that one person is not around We walk with our heads down pretending that we are not seen. You scream louder than your heart beats. Louder than a the bang of a bass drum. Trying to say stop no more, this has to end. But the world continues to rotate. Hours daylight roll on like a ticking clock. ..tick tock And the paint continues to stay still on the window pain. Press pause to a time someone was left beat Press pause to a time someone fell to their feet Press pause to the boys and girls who never got to live their dreams When are we going to learn that this life we live is not a perfect shape kaleidoscopic that our decisions bounce around like a ball on repeat that a cry for help is not a silent peep yet we sit here feeding new born babies fresh bottles of despise Extract the fine pure genes and filling corrupting young teenage minds Leaving nothing but the vicious malicious society that is our kind and so, we claim to have our own voice inside A voice that climbs to the tip of escape but instead is kept back for keeps sake I am tired of seeing this silence bleed a puddle of black I am tired of weeping and wiping the tears that we hold back I am tired of the chances that no one seems to attack (fast) we burn bridges and instead build misfortune Tell me who taught us how to hate Stop and behold a view that “we” create Deceitful pitiful poor vile crude discourteous slothful fools each and every one of us is to blame for not speaking up above the darkened grey So let this be a break though thought in your brain That beyond the walls of “us” lys a hero that can make a change and that one seed is really all it takes. to rise above the rest and influence the just and not the injustice to say what you mean and mean what you say and let your voice be heard cause today is the day we press play.