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Walls
The school walls must feel tired
Tired of seeing kids get eaten by the pain
That lays in their stomach
Trying to catch up with the train
My bedroom walls must cry
Cause all they see is me
Coping trying to see
All the meanings behind the words
That dance-off your tongue
Do you think the walls dream?
Or is that just me
Because the nightmare we’re living in is getting so hard to breathe
Would the walls talk to me?
I wonder if they are too scared to scream
Maybe I could tell them of my dreams
How I can fly
And escape the world around me
They must be lonely
No one talking
No one seeing
Nailing metal through their cheeks
And covering their eyes with pictures so they won’t ever see.
Walls don’t worry I understand your tears
I am sorry because no one’s smart enough
To remember that you are here
This poem expresses the desperate need to be seen.