Safe
Not feeling safe walking down the road past 8 o’clock
When women do not feel comfortable around other
Women down to insecurities. The overthinking of
Making sure you find the right man when r older the
One that won’t scream at you and the one that will take
Care of your kids when your wore out the man who will
Step up to the job. Men trying to make women feel worthless.
Men trying to put other men down to make them feel better
About themselves. Women that hate the thought of other
People being happy .
When They Say
When they say get back in the kitchen
When they slag girls to make themselves look better
When they can’t cook When they think they’re mad on
The scooters and bikes When they wont get a spider for me
When they can’t have their own opinion.
Walking Home
Walking home alone constantly looking over your shoulder,
Wondering will you feel any safer in this situation when your older,
Asking your male friends to walk you home a little further,
Or calling for a lift home for the safety of your brother,
Crossing over as soon as you see a figure,
On the phone to your friends or having them on speed dial,
To pass the time in the meanwhile.
Same Old Story
I put it on for the first time.
Went out with the lads.
Corona with a lime
It was like what I saw in the ads.
Couple years later
Same old story
Wishing I was greater
´go down this lane´ said Corry.
Lads
There was lads at the shops, lads on the blocks
Growing up being told these were the hard lads
But these lads aren’t the hard and bad lads they think they are
Making money the “easy way” but it’s just an easy way out
But as I get older I find out these aren’t real men.
Smart
From a young age we’re taught to be still while we listen and learn
In class be quiet and focus now so later you can earn
To those who are seen as unbothered or don’t care
Overlooked by teachers who think the focus isn’t there
But they’re smart in ways they can’t see.
Girls
Girls are as aware as a tiger,
As piercing as a stalactite,
As vengeful as a crow
And many more
But they only will when you do wrong.
Learn
If you want to live you have to learn how to die,
If you want to learn you’re going to have to earn,
So you might as well not try,
just give up and learn to lie.
Brave
I don’t know what to write. Despite that, I really want to.
I enjoy writing. I used to write stories about worlds that I wished were real.
About magical creatures and a girl who was scared. but she did it anyway.
I don’t know what to write here because all I’ve been taught to do is replicate.
To memorize facts and write them down over and over and over.
And now I struggle to write about magic. and now that I’m older I’m the girl from the story.
I just hope I’m brave enough to do the things I’m scared of anyway.
Human
Forgive my language, but do you want to know what I hate?
I hate gender, I hate religion, I hate sexuality and identity.
Why must we invent words that just separate us more as a species?
No matter what we are, man or woman, homosexual or straight, religious or not,
We are all human.
We are born, we love, we cry, we laugh,
We experience life together as humankind.
I don’t care about labels or terms or differences, everyone is my equal.
Because we are humans, and we all love together
Passage
I ride through the fields with joy
In the distance I see a boy
One step closer to the hills
I can see the Cumberland mills.
Next in my passage
I ride in a carriage.
One step closer to the skies
Is where the con man lies.
In the end of it all
This is where the last man falls.
Like a Girl
‘Throw like a girl’ and he drops the ball.
‘Hit like a girl’ and he barely slaps.
‘Act like a girl’ and he shops and gossips.
‘Run like a girl’ and I run as fast as I can.
Dirty
People speak of pollution.
A drop of sewage dilutes the lake.
People speak of equality.
A single definition changes their mind.
How am I to be proud,
When people act as if I should hide.
They grow uncomfortable when I’m loud.
I love the drop of sewage.
My identity is pollution.
Strong Enough
I’ve hurt people, and been hurt by people, and I’ll hurt
Again and be hurt again. I wake up everyday and hope
That I can do better by people I’ve wronged, and be there
For people I’ve just met. I feel loved by so many people.
I feel so lucky to be surrounded in love, and drowned in
A sea of people who don’t just look past the scratches
And dents that form me, but love them with an affection
That is the strongest thing I’ve ever seen. Its warm and
You can feel it in the air. I hope one day we can all be
Strong enough to express that.
To Be A Man
In my life, to be a man is to love sports, to do manual labor,
Not care and not react to whatever is thrown at you
Even one slip up would leave you feeling sad and you think lesser of yourself
That small box of society doesn’t fit anyone exactly.
Is it Alright?
It’s made all too difficult, speaking to people.
Every time a word is uttered, it has to be surveyed.
Some opinions are viewed as fact while others fall to the wayside.
And after one opinion is set as such, it can never usually be swayed.
I want to speak, I want to be nice.
I want to have friends, I don’t want to cause fights.
But something I say, contorted and warped.
Makes meaning meaningless.
Although, not everyone adheres to these rules.
Some share this feeling, injustice that’s cruel.
And that not only makes me refreshed.
It makes me appreciate the people I have.
Hate
Hate,
Hate is the insecurity to accept,
Hate is the memory of trauma,
Hate is the plague of insecurity,
Hate is the plague of memory,
Hate,
Hate.
Home
I always say I want to go home,
But really, where is my home?
Is it in my house, With the past
Shadows of fights and tears shed?
Is it in the people I surround myself with,
Their presence flickering in and out of my
life like a light bulb on a stormy night?
Home is a place to feel safe, to feel loved.
So, my home is in my mind,
Surrounded by my thoughts of past and present.
My worries thrown into the fireplace of my mind,
My happy memories placed high on shelves,
Never to be forgotten. I always say I want to go home,
But really, I am always at home in my mind.
SWimming
I wanna be a fish
Because I like swimming
I like swimming
Because it’s fun.
Reading
Reading has always been my escape,
When reality is too much to bear,
Story characters are always there for me,
While real people don’t care.
The books I read are stable,
While the world can come crashing down
I will always adore reading,
As it can always fix my frown.
Earth and Moon
Men and women are like the earth and the moon
While they’re in orbit they are forever apart
Though without the moon there would be no waves
And without the earth the moon would sail into space
The two give balance to each other
And go through the universe together.
Dear Ultimate Frisbee
Dear ultimate frisbee. You’ve always been there
For me in the most dire of times. You were there
For me when my Nintendo switch got too greasy
And I couldn’t use it. You were there for me when
Packgod quit YouTube. You were there for me when
The burnt peanut stream ended and I couldn’t watch
It no more. But most importantly you were there for
Me when no one else was. And for that I will always be grateful.
Men
Sometimes men can be like weeds
Weeds that you just wanna pluck out of your garden of life
Weeds that can just infest your life can be quite annoying
But sometimes if you do the right thing or express yourself
And your vulnerability sometimes there’s very few weeds
That can just blossom into beautiful flowers
Men need to be more like those beautiful flowers
And who knows maybe they could be happier in their life.
As They Are
We act like we don’t care
We don’t look like ourselves
We hide under toughness
And stay on the shelf.
You don’t seem the same
People are as they are
You´re a slave to the norms
And I am as we are.
Pressure
According to them I was good, I just had passion and love
People praise to inspire but create stress where once was
Pride forged in fire. I was never afraid of failure I was playing
For joy. Now a label has been given that can’t be written
People know my name, now to fail would be my shame
And so I will be eaten from within.
Respect
Often times boys will change their opinions to gain respect
They believe this will make them more of a man
They fight for loyalty when often they are the last choice
Respect is not gained from following everyone else but
Standing on your own morals the ability to be your own
Man and have respect for yourself is more than anyone else can give you.
I Wanna be a Dog
I wanna be a dog because there brains are
Full of fog and all they do is play the day away
They eat and eat and their favorite thing to eat is meat
They have nice fluffy hair and they are without a care.
Myself
I’ve always been lonely
But not like I thought
When I had no friends at all
Or when I had a whole lot
I always felt an ache
Deep down in my chest
“I will never belong.”
I still try to forget.
I know now that loneliness never came from being alone
But from the way I am different
Deep down in my bones
And when I laugh with my friends
I know now.
That I will always have myself.
For what else could I hope.