"not cool"
I put my pencil to the page
And let my mind go free
But I have to hide my face
And my poetry
Cuz as a high-school student
Living where I do
Poetry is boring
And it's definitely
Not cool.
Now skinny jeans
And designer shoes
Expensive phones
And bracelets will do
As long as you're smaller...
Than a size 2
And you're brainwashed
To think
Alike
Same sense of humor
Clipped Wings
You can't
Fly.
That's cool
That's how to be
Popular
That's how to be liked
But poetry…
Poetry Isn't
Popular
It isn't cool
Because to write poetry
You have to
Be
Different
You have to be free
You have to have
A mind of your own
You have to have...
Emotions.
But see in high school today
Emotions
Are shunned
Pushed deep down inside
Where no one
Can find them.
Because emotions
Make you different
Emotions make you weak
But emotions also
Make us human
And emotions...
Emotions
Write
Poetry.
It's not just people
Thinking of rhymes
or lyrics
It's people listening
To their heart
Listening
To their soul
And writing
What they believe
Writing
What they see...
Inside.
So poetry may not
Be cool
But neither
Is being popular
If everyone popular
Is the same.
Blonde hair
Size 2
Lots of money
But no problems to...
Deal with
Because they push
Them down
Away from the world
As if they never
Even had them
In the first place
But see high school
Isn't a race
To see who can be
The most plastic minded.
The most beautiful girl
The strongest boy
The richest one
The smartest one
It's not a race
To see who's the best
Because everyone
Is different
Everyone
Needs to do their own thing
Because their own thing
Is what makes them
Who they are
You need to become
One person
Not a group
Not a clique
And poetry won't change
Who you are
But it will help you open up
It will help you learn
Who you are inside
It will show you
Who you
Are
So maybe
Poetry's not cool
But neither
Is hiding behind a face of
Caked-on makeup
Because you don't see
Your own beauty
Or hiding behind diet pills
And steroids
Because someone called you fat
Or weak
Neither is spending money
You don't
Have
Or pretending
You're not sad
Because everyone has feelings
Everyone has emotions
But if you always push that away
No one will ever know
Who you truly are
And I'm sorry to say
But that's
What is
“not cool”
Its not
The poetry...