Shadow

Hi

Hey

I'm over here!

Somewhere tucked away in the back of the room

Hidden

Clouds of gloom and doom hovering over me

Saturating me as I stand weeping

No one truly loves me

Hey

Notice me!

I have dreams 

Which flow as long as streams

I am valuable

Just like you

I matter!

I'm in the back of the room

Overshadowed by crowds of chatter

And others with egotistical importance

They are more important than me

Too shallow to see

What I see in humanity

To see what I see in me

Maybe instead of being swallowed by the majority

With their hypocrisies

And false realities

I will stay separated

Just my thoughts and me

In the back of the room

Fatherless Woman

I look like him
Speak like him
Share the same love for cycles as him
Yet I don't know him
He knows my name
I know his name
We smile the same
Yet, I don't know him
He's out in the streets
In and out of bars he creeps
Cheap alcohol
Cheaper women
Sleepin
He made me
The unwanted baby
Our resemblances are uncanny
My parents didn't plan me
He was never there
Growing up was unfair
All I wanted was his love
for him to care
To him, I wasn’t a name, maybe child number 3
No emotional attachment to me, or nurturing shared
God said "Be fruitful and multiplied."
My dad literally complied
He stayed long enough to make me
Never had a father to call mine
Never stayed around for the tears I cried

The Peanut Gallery

Love me

Hate me

Toss a quarter in the air

50/50

Whatever fate maybe for me

Destiny awaits

I don't want a piece of the pie, I want the whole damn cake

Poorly struggling for what the rich make

Destiny calls

Whispers of negativity causes me to stall

It's looking like no one cares at all

Hecklers wanna see me fall

But, my God sees all

Lord, hear my cry

Help me keep my heart protected, head towards the sky

If I listen to them, I'd die