Our Youth

We keep telling them what they want to hear
so that we can hide and shield them from fear
we hide them from truth
and sadly this is our youth

We say no pain no gain
but give them false hope to regain
that sense of freedom a painless life
but without pain there is no strife

Nothing to teach how to live
so everything we just give
nothing to earn, nothing to fight for
so they come back just wanting more

Not knowing what's holding them down
so they turn to drugs, sex, alcohol to take away the frown
they get addicted, they get high
never knowing wrong from right

Because they never had someone to say
you have to fail some days
you have to get back up when you fall
and no matter how hard it may be, stand up tall

There is no such thing as trying
this information I'm not buying
if you have ever tried with all your might
you will know you can win any fight

And if you're fighting for good
you will always be misunderstood
but just keep fighting
because our world you are uniting

Don't fall down to world and their demands
because they will never understand
who you are truly meant to be
truth is that's society

So go be different and make a statement
make them fall down on the pavement
because they know that our worlds youth
is beginning to learn the truth

A Memory

I can feel it pulling at my heart

just begging for me 

it is tearing me apart

and I am the only one who can see

Why it is calling

what it wants

as I listen I am falling

and my mind it taunts 

The one thing that made a change

is now making my life feel deranged 

it screams in the night 

and I say it will be alright

But it's not and I know

there is no use trying to let go

it has captured my mind and being

and has created this feeling

It once was just with my memories 

a simple thing of the past 

as if it was just one of the many stories

that come and leave my mind so fast

Now it has become real 

and I cannot put it back

this feeling is terribly surreal 

and my heart it has attacked 

Dependence

There are countless things we depend our life upon
Hoping that in time they will make us strong
The possessions over which we obsess
Just to throw them in a pile with the rest

Once we see that they do no good
We use an excuse of being misunderstood
We say that no one understands our pain
And accuse ourselves of being less sane

Just because we realized that these objects do us no good
And we turn it into more of a crisis than we should
Only after time and careful thought
Do we realize we were looking at the wrong lot

It is values and people that we should base our lives upon
Because if chosen well, those will never be gone
Do not try to gain possessions in hope of being fulfilled
Only do what is right and use properly your free will

To Rush It All

It was a dream pursued too fast

a motivation that was too good to last 

simply a hope for something that could not be achieved 

a magic trick that disappeared through the sleeve 

It was not that it was disasterous 

or that it had no chance to work

I was too spontaneous 

and took one too many a look 

I rushed it all without thought

and immediacy I sought 

now it is gone 

like a sappy love song

I wish I could take it all back

but my actions have struck me like a heart attack 

I cannot change what has been done

Once again I have not won 

A faint part of it still lives

and I hope it forgives

the speed I took 

without a single look