Date Written: 23 February 2012
Content Warning: This poem contains topics that may be sensitive to readers. Reader discretion is advised.
If I die, who lives?
If I cry, do you laugh?
When I am hurt, do you care?
You go on, I repeat.
What is love?
What is pain?
Are they not one and the same?
A penny saved is a penny earned.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Am I worth a thousand words?
Am I a penny saved, or am I a penny earned?
You run, I walk.
You demand, I give.
You hate me
But I love you.
You are negative, I am positive.
You fear, I dream
Of horrors
Of horses,
Of family,
Of friends,
Of enemies,
Of pets,
Of plants,
Of parasites.
If I give, do you receive?
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Will you try and keep me away?
Am I accepted, or am I rejected?
Am I in love, or am I in pain?
I forgive, but you get revenge.
I draw, you paint.
I sing, you dance.
I hurt, you heal.
I scream, you yell.
You punch, I kick.
You speak, I listen.
You threaten, I obey.
You bully, but do I harass?
If I am gone, will you be crying over me?
If I am gone, will you see what I see?
If I am gone, would you miss me?
Would you find someone to replace me?
If I am gone, would you remember me?
Am I human, or am I puppet to you?
You look up, I look down.
You are happy, but I am depressed.
No prescription can change how I feel
About you and the world
Discriminating, fighting, stealing, and killing.
But is that all worth it?
Are you happy?
Are you proud?
Are you scared?
Are you down?
Are you a friend?
Are you an enemy?
Do you stand there and watch from a distance
While I hurt and bleed?
Am I dead or am I living to you?
Flowers can wilt, flowers can die.
But have you forgotten
That flowers can bloom
That flowers can blossom?
I am not an angel
And you are not some devil.
You are human.
I am human.
You and me
Are human,
Are living.
Yet you act like I am nothing.
Speak now or forever hold your peace
For I am who I am,
I am me.
So the next time you make a rude remark or point a finger, just remember
That when you point a finger at someone,
You will have three fingers pointing back at you.