This is my reason to write

I have gone through the stages of hell
I've been locked in a depression cell

This is my reason to write

I witness people get hurt and die
I have to watch that with my own brown eye

This is my reason to write

I take my mistakes as lessons learned
But my parents think otherwise

This is my reason to write

I haven't had much support
But my confidence sure as hell beats their family resort

This is my reason to write

I've walked the path of the wrong
I've been shamed of who I believe I am

This is my reason to write

Because I can't feel like my age
Their expectations put my life in a tornado of rage

I can't stop myself from my actions with a blade
I can only take my pain and face the next day

I don't write to receive pity from another
I don't write to drown you in my world

This is not my reason to write

I have a story to tell
I would rather speak out loud then dwell

This is not my reason to write

My family is not the people they want to be
I can't help questioning who I am

This is not my reason to write

I watch as my world burns down like hell
As I sit in my room writing the story I was born to tell

This is why I write

I write because I connect with an audience
I want teenagers to know that life doesn't have to be all violence

We live in a hard scary world
Where people can't express themselves
Where life is just a game and a joke
Where kids grow up Unstable and slippery like yoke

This is my reason to write

To show you it's okay to be silent
It's not okay to be punished for speaking out loud

This is my reason to write

I write because I have to, not because I want to
I write because I'm left at home with no one to company me

This is my reason to write

Because not all my poems need to rhyme
Just to get my story out and straight as a line

This is my reason to write

I tell stories of fights
I tell stories of lonely nights
I tell stories of rhyming words and twisted tales
I tell stories of broken hearts and girls left pale.

I can write for hours at a time
I cant function with society

This is my reason to write
My chance to speak loud and fight
Silently though...like the night