To Live?

One more bipolar and confusing poem that will be analyzed over the ages as either a masterpiece that delves into the most abstract concepts... or probably just a piece of trash a high schooler wrote. Read on folks ;P

To Live?

Don’t drop your guard

Not for a second, I mean it

I swear, without a doubt…

You will fall in love

You will find happiness

And… you will learn to hate

See that wall?

The one that’s been standing tall since the day you were born

The one that all have learned to scorn

But none of whom have torn

That wall keeps you safe

You may never see the sky

But it’s better than learning what it means to die

A cage doesn’t hold you in

It holds everything else out

Out on the battlefield,

It’s your shield…

Without it, you will surely be pierced

By arrows of heartbreaks

A lance of heartaches

Cleaved by the sword of mistakes

Remember, in here you are covered

Concealed and undiscovered

It came with a price,

But your life is more than nice

You see some others go out and come back changed

Watch how deranged

How estranged they become

They don’t even know what it means to be safe anymore

Out there is a war

And neither side is winning

...But let me tell you something

It’s a secret... about out there

You won’t hear this anywhere

I swear, tell no one

They’d burn you at the stake

There will be no break

No chances to take

For fear that you will upset their perfect society

Of iniquity

Of brutality

Of false reality

How dare you open their eyes

How dare you realize

That this isn’t living

That a cage blinds just as much as it binds

Listen to this thought

Drink it like the finest of wines

For you will never drink from choice again

You can live with the pain

And watch it stain

You will be marked like a blank canvas

They will not stand this

You will be an outsider

Societal divider

Disruptor and denier

Traitor and vindicator

You will be enemy of the state

They will want your head on a plate

Not for your crimes

But for all the times

That they told you couldn’t

That you shouldn’t

And then you went and did it

You proved them wrong

Proved you’re strong

You’re everything they said you wouldn’t be

Happier than they’ll ever be

Not the expected casualty

But something else entirely

A survivor

There’s a distinction

Between existing

And living