When
When did it become okay
To stay awake till five
Thirty minutes of sleep
Became enough
As long as our homework was done
When did it become okay
For a teacher to yell
Or slam a book on a desk
When he had a bad morning
When did it become okay
To not eat breakfast or dinner
Food is less important
Than the grades for school
When did it become okay
To brainwash kids into feeling
Things that they don't want to
If we don't want to go to college
Why is that a crime?
I want to travel the country
See the beaches in California
Taste the rain in Europe
Smell the freedom in the Amazon
Just be free to explore
What's so wrong with me
Not wanting to waste four years
To get a career I don't want
And go in debt in the process
Why must I choose my life's ambition
Before I can even vote
Maybe I want to drink a beer
And mull the options over
When did it become okay
To pressure kids into choosing
To tell them to make adult decisions
While you still treat them like they're five
Teenagers just want freedom
They want to live a little
Don't look down on our decision to do so
Just because you accepted the life that was handed to you.
We live in a world that questions
We breathe in through the pain
We've all experienced difficulty
Before we struggle to live a life that others forced us into
Let us learn what happiness is
So that we know what it is when we find it.
Home.
Words spoken in hushed voices
Breaking hearts one by one
Everybody looking at me
No, not at me
Through me to what I was
At least what I was supposed to be
To them I was an idea
A person to manipulate
A person to use through everything
Not a child, a toy
What they didn't realize
Is that toys are very breakable
My skin was easy to tear apart
My heart was shattered
A million broken pieces
Scattering the floor.
I was broken
I am broken
I don't know how to fix myself
I don't know if I want to be fixed
But then I saw your eyes
Bright as the lake on a sunny day
Your heart was whole
Welcoming me into your life
You somehow put the pieces back together
But I am still lost
And I know I don't deserve you
You deserve the world
And I am not even a pebble
Your love was easy to give me
But it was hard for me to push away
Yet I did it without flinching
I am broken and hurt
The world tore me to pieces
I don't know why you came back
But I don't want to fight it anymore
In your arms I feel safe
I feel loved
I feel at home.