for the red headed teen who thinks he sucks at poetry...

I'm currently at this exact moment right now subbing in a high school English class and they're doing beat poetry and it's an honors class so they're on task, so hey-ho... might as well write a beat poem of my own.


SPEAK!

You say you suck at poetry
But I see
A young man's anger and curiosity
Ripped off, shut down,
Ground to dust by a system
That just can't handle 
Your truth--

That you contain multitudes.

That you don't have to be
Perfectly eloquent to be
Perfectly angry,
Or curious,
Or wise.

That you have eyes that see
What they NEVER will--
Truths they'll never kill
Unless you let them...
Unless you load the gun.

Your time's begun, young man.
And yeah... okay...
I get it's bleak.

But if you don't stand
And demand they let you speak...

Who will?

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