Don’t look down
Look up
In looking down your eyes
will sink into the floor
And your mouth will become the
dusty grey
with the words I see unsaid
on your tongue
I laugh to think you believe
you’ve hid behind the shadows of everyone else
You are no more a part of
the shadows than the sun
You are no more unnoticeable
for your sacrifice
Just more stupid
More conformed with the
sound scheme of society
Play and pause to the tune
of the busy streets
Can’t be the note that’s
off-key
Can’t be the one that people
see
I am the fire quenched by
your cowardice
The courage-less cutouts are
no match for me
You think that it is that I’ll
ever stop shouting?
Think this is the way that
you’ll get to be free?
When you lie alone with quietness
Cowering behind a blank face
mask
Flip through pale pages, you
are just one of them
Synonymous in uniformity
Equal in vacant voice, you disgust
me.
How can you live so low,
when you can scream so loud?
How can you not be heard,
when you can easily shout?
I am the syllables that you
have chained up in your fear
The unnecessary weakness.
The bridge won’t hold, it’ll
break
tumbling down into your
silence
without the echo of your
needs
So scream at me
Look up at me and tell me
what you are
Banish the shy, the scared
The scared have no place
here
You have no place here
anymore
And that is why I am here
You have no place here
anymore
Unless you tell me that you
do
Unless you fight for what is
you
Unless you know it, what is
true
You are not who you are
If you cannot prove it
You don’t deserve to be who
you are
If you cannot speak
So speak to me.
Shut out the fear that no
one knows
Before it consumes you
Before you become the one that
never grows
Before it erases you and you’re
a white page
No one needs a white page
There are so many others
That are like you
So take it out
In the name of them that
can’t be you
Take it out
The evil hesitation
The silent condemnation
Push it
Punch it
No one needs a white page
There are too many of them
No one needs a white page
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