These Days
It's funny how
These days
Kids jump into "I love You"s
Like they jump into cold, glistening pools during California Summers
Somehow you are the winter I've been longing for through these eternal days of 100 degree weather
Yet you say you are as common as knowledge
You know, knowledge isn't as common anymore
See these kids throw themselves into drugs at younger ages
Quickening their maturing phases
They run around all day, smoking weed and sexting instead of studying and passing
Thinking that fun under the damaging sun
Is more imprtant than their education
As if their education isn't worth the time to be done right
And when it's over it can' be undone
Like the whispers they spread
See these kids trip into the abyss of "I love You"s of the bodies
Not the mind
Not the soul
They just fall and keep falling as if the decent is endless
Like their grades
"Ooooo Babbyyy, how I long for and love that body of yours"
Hearing phrases like these is a constant chore
See when will I be more than just a body?
I am more than just little miss funmaker
I am a woman who is making her way through life
Paving a path to glory using the stars as my stepping stones
When a Star is really just a ball of gas
But you wouldn't know
You weren't paying attention in class
You were too busy gawking at my ass
As if it had the textbook's words written all over it
And I can see the turning gear in the heads of these kids start rusting and decline
Brain cells surrounded by THC
Losing memory
I can't say that I'm innocent either
See my lighter hit the earth when I was only 14
Little miss stoner queen
You got attached to the method of madness to drown out your sadness
You aren't a baddie
See Cali's got these baddies
Who know what to show
When to show
And How to show
Then they're labelled as prudes
When you wanna see what's under their mini skirts
And crop topped t shirts
But they don't roll like that
They aren't trying to tease
You just believe they want to show you
When really they are showing their beauty to mirrors
Looking at marks, scars, and curves like
They are Gemstones
Forged on their glorious crowns know as their bodies
These queens got the means to succeed but are constantly put down by words like
"slut"
"whore"
"bitch"
When I hear these terms thrown at girls
Who don't wanna show what you wanna see willingly
It forms an itch in my brain that needs to be scratched
Before it runs down my back and causes my words to attack
Words forming in my head
Trying to claw their way out of my mouth to just make things go south
But if you say the wrong words
Simply state an opinion it starts a fight
That ends with no one being right
Words falling to my feet
Like girl's heads in school fights
It's funny
Really it's amusing
These days we're living in
These poor generations of depressed and sex obsessed kids
With the potential to make the world better
Wasted on petty high school drama
It's funny these days
Who knew it'd end like this