My Thought Dump

They said write carelessly now so:

I wish you didn’t have to leave

To find something worth staying for

I wish I knew what I had

Been getting into

I wish I had been told

Not to fear love itself

But the abuse of it

I wish I had said goodbye

I wanted to

But couldn’t find the right words

To say what I wanted to say

Now

I wish I had the words to say

I wish I could say them out loud

Like a normal person

I wish more people understood

Writing

And I wish that wishes

Actually came true

And they weren’t just figments

Of imagination

Where things could be different

I wish people understood

How hard it is to be a teen

In an adults world

The pressure

The stereotypes

The “well when I was your age”

That basically tell us we have no

Life of our own

We have to live like our parents past

Like the elders pasts

I wish there weren’t so many

Social standards

So much pressure

To look and be one way

So much division

Separation

Fear

And war

I wish

And I wish

And I wish

And sometimes

Most of the time

Writing my wishes out

Are almost as good as

Having them happen.

Because they no longer belong to just me.