What Would I Change

Fri, 04/11/2014 - 23:04 -- kaelen

What Would I Change

 

Which way does your world turn?

North? South? East? Maybe West….

Mine…

Well it turns every which way

It turns when I wake up in the morning and I realize that it’s not all a dream like Biggie said it would be

Sometimes my words are confungled when I wake up because I don’t understand why I sit in the mess that I sit in

You ask what I would I change..

Most would say that they would solve world hunger, or even end the war.

But I say we change our selves,

It starts where the heart is

It starts at the place we call home

It starts where we lay our heads at night

Change only comes when one is fed up

Change is something we bare like shackles

So you ask me what will I change..

I say my self

You ask me what I would change

I would say the person inside of me that yells ignorant things

You ask me what I want to change

I want to change the way people see me when I walk down the street

I want to change people’s perspectives, people’s stereotypes.

Not because I am African American

Not because I am a female

But because we are human beings

Change only comes when one wants it that much

Change lurks at the bottom of everyone’s soul

It cries for help, it cries to be released from its shackles and its bonds.

Change…

Is something that cannot be televised?

They said the revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be televised

But I disagree

Because when we do decide to unshackle change

When we do decide to change ourselves

Then, then will I sleep peacefully in my bed

Then will I know that change is worth something

But who am I to judge the person who doesn’t want change

Who am I when I say we should change

I’m not the head commander and chief

I don’t pay a bill

I don’t have kids

Who am I but a teenager?

Waiting for something better

Waiting…..

For change

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