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Happiness
You're beautiful just the way you are and don't ever change...
The biggest lie I have ever been told
Because when you say that
What you really mean is :
Your nose is too big
Your eyes are uneven
Your eyebrows are to bushy
And your lips aren't even the Same color.
We have become monsters were lying has become the truth
And we blame it all on society...
But WE are the society
Hypocrisy has become an accessory
We wake up in the morning and throw on some hate and bullying and pair it with some jealousy
As little kids we would hop on the sidewalks
Trying not to step on the cracks because we didn't wanna break our mama's backs
But as we grow we no longer care
We walk on the cracks NO we STOMP on the cracks
As if hidden in between lays hopes and dreams
Our world a savanah where we prey on the weak
I breath but I am suffocating
I thank God that I'm alive
But I am already dead
I run from all my predators
Only to fall flat on my face
But even when I am down
I keep falling...
Falling to a place where
Happiness is all but a myth
A myth so believable I swear I can hear...laughter and joy....
But it is all a myth
Because someday Peter Pan WILL grow up
And caption hook, will be the least of his worries, but LIFE it'll screw him over
Forgive me for not believing in fairies
Why do you think they call it neverland? Because we will NEVER LAND In a place where happiness is they key to eternity.
Forgive me for growing up
I'm sorry for everything
I am sorry homeless man at the corner of east Hastings
Because my pair of true religion jeans were more important than your cries for help
I'm sorry useless hair ties on my wrist and bandanas on my table
Because hats were my only comfort
Because hair was EVERYTHING so I had NOTHING
I'm sorry Roy Seo because my hair was never good enough for you,
Medusa you'd say...
I stopped looking in the mirror because I feared I would see the monster that terrorized you
Don't look into her eyes

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