Writing Prompts I wrote for school

(12-30-20) Love Letter to a Rapper

I love your music 

and I love what you preach 

I, too, know what it's like 

to not know how to be 

who you are in a world not fit

for the weirdos like us 

mixed kids

with not place to fit in

I know what it's like 

to have nightmares

that consume you like sharks 

or to rely on the drugs 

that destroy your broken heart 

or have nothing but depression left 

You preach what I'm scared to share 

You're a voice for the kids like us out there 

We're more than what we've been through 

Or who people say that we are 

We're more than our faces 

We're more than our scars 

You've been a light in the dark 

for a kid like me

When I have nothing left

but your words to cling

onto in the dark

to save myself 

from the world with no place 

for the kids like us