Wake Up

I woke up in this world
Thinking it’s free
Think it’s for me
But is it really?
They told me “you’ll understand when your older”
I don’t really get that

Now I see that
People are struggling
People are hustling
Thought that won’t ever be me
But I lied to myself
When I got older
Cause pain kept running over my shoulder
Losing myself

I can’t find it
But how can I find it
In hell
Cause that’s where I was living
You see that
It was black
With nothing to hold to
No one close to
Fear came running at me
Thinking it got me

Thought pain had it for me
Until it said “Do it”
Then I realize
I had a solution
To write with motion
It got me out of the black
Freed me from fear
Now I can hear
Pain gave me this
Does it want me to fight?
What a dumb question

Cause it gave me a lesson
The world won’t be in your perspective
It’s deceptive

This poem is about: 
Me
Our world

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