Blue Hearts 2k16 (My Collection of Poems And Short Stories)

Wasted

I know I have so much more to learn,

but haven't I learned enough?

Why is life always wasted?

The teenagers always feel the need to show something.

Always need to show the world that their different.

But we're all the same.

We're all broken.

We're all lost.

Why can't they see that they've been abandoned from the start?

They yearn for freedom.

A freedom that was never granted.

But was taken for granted.

They believe that they're invincible.

That anything is possible.

That's the kind of world we live in.

Why is life always wasted?

We've spent our time believing that all of our dreams would come true,

but in the end,

they would all shatter into pieces.

There never was a choice.

There never was a dream.

We were made to believe that.

We were made to believe in a lie.

Why does everything feel so empty?

All those words that the adults would tell us.

I feel like they're hiding something.

Hiding the truth.

There never was a 'happy place.'

We are taught to know what was right and what was wrong, before we even experienced it.

There was never freedom.

We are trapped.

We are lost.

We just want to be ourselves,

but how can we be ourselves when we are made to be like others?

We are always judging.

Judge or be judged.

We just want to fit in.

We want to find our place.

But all that effort is wasted.

By the time we realize who we are,

we're already beaten.

We're already defeated.

We become monsters.

We became monsters.

We eventually realize that no one accepts us.

That we're different.

That we're not needed.

That we've been abandoned.

That everything was wasted.

We were nothing to began with.

It's quite funny how a 14 year old could see this,

but the world can't.

Or rather,

the world chooses to ignore it.

The world chooses to ignore what we really want.

The world chooses to ignore what we really need.

Freedom.

That's all we wished for.

But we played right into its trap.

Just like in a game,

it was over before it even started.

Game over.

We lost all of our lives.

We've wasted our chance.