All I Need Scholaarship Slam
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i am, i am, i am
sylvia plath bragged
and so do i
i think therefore i am
therefore i am what i think
it doesn’t sound christian
but all i really need is me
what i mean is, my mind.
“My Awakening”
Waking up everyday
My life has not been the same;
I got that voice in the back of my head
You swallow me whole.
Alone, I’m taken from my world
Stranded
Whisked away to a place with no escape
It’s not a journey
Not an expedition or a phase
Music
Forever changing
Forever the same
Nothing quite like it to be honest
Listening
The beat of the song matching the beat of my heart
Although decades separated
Linked together through sound
Have you ever gone on a really long trip?
Let’s say it’s a whole week staying in a hotel
You packed your bag with everything you thought you needed
But you get to where you’re going and you forget your favorite shoes
A cluttered mind weeps at the fragmented thoughts
that dance through the abyss of what once was creativity.
Any zeal for life extinguished, past passions naught
once cruelly exposed to the harsh grey light of reality.
Without there are no midnight drives,
long road trips,
rooftop dreams,
workout scenes;
there are no triumphs
there are no trials nor tribulations
What do I need to survive?
I need for my lungs to breath air.
I need for my heart to continue pumping.
I need my brain to keep functioning normally.
I need my ears to hear my depressing music.
I hold my dreams close to my heart.I don’t let them go.Never.Every single second is filled with hope.Every night is reverie.Every day is waiting.Does it ever end?Not really.
All I Need Scholarship Slam
All I Need is peace,
If I lose it I shall decease.
Peace gives me solitude,
Memories.
No matter where I am it's always with me.
Whether it's sad or happy.
Any perfect moment is a perfect memory.
How could I live without any memories?
All I need is my peace of mindWith freedom from wandering thoughtsThat lead to the reign of anxietyWhen worry consumes meWondering where my life will goThe battle that happens inside my headAs my thoughts conflict and don't make senseEverything se
What is one thing
That I cannot live without?
At that my brain smiled
And my heart laughed out loud
Off the horizon,
The island is seen off,
Off the course from other lands,
Before becoming apart,
Before becoming isolated.
I see to this day,
I live on that island,
Momma, Stay
It was such an busy morning
cool outside on a cloudy day
But that beauty was rejected
and next all i saw was crying on her beautiful face
My body shaking like an earthquake ,
It’s blurry vision and
Coffee stains on the corners
Of letters that will just be
Tossed into an infinity of words
Given to you.
Creating a sunlit, golden world where I can
Listen to my
Own thoughts with the
Universe's vices bidding for my attention.
Five years ago he sat next to me,
Great high school friends is what I thought we would be.
Months later he became my best friend,
And hours on the phone with him I wanted to spend.
When I was younger, the only thing I could ever want was to be white.
To not have someone look at me and spit the word "Nigger", and find it to be true.
Down to its loveless core
How dare you sail your judgments upon my shore.
With your futile efforts to take control
Your bibical conquistadors
can do no more.
We were brought into this world,
With loved filled arms.
And for a lifetime we seek
For the perfect love.
If I were stranded on an island
with the most important thing to me
it would be you on this highland
You would be all I see
we could work together on this island
and find a way to enjoy the ocean blue
We've all played this game before,
I recall a specific time, and back then I thought it was a bore.
It was seventh grade and our teacher said we all got the answer wrong,
All I NEED is all I got and all it takes!
I need a lot of things but nothing that I am incapable of getting or achieving.
Most of what I need comes from me or can come from me.
My lovely, your smile is the light of my fire
Your eyes, dark and shy, twinkle in the night sky
There is an imaginary forcefield that separates what we want from what we actually need.
This barrier is usually the filter of discernment bewteen necessity and greed.
