My speeches

Survive

I've been told my whole life
That life will be amazing
Everything will come true
But I'm not an optimist
However, I'm not a pessimist either
I'm nothing but the average teen

I open my eyes to reality and no matter how much I want to or try to escape it
Fantasy always escapes me
I'm stuck in this never ending torture, living and breathing in the same day on repeat, each in a different way
I've been told to look at the result
Read between the lines but I guess I've never been much of a reader

I focus on what society wants us to be:
Thin, beautiful... perfect. But no ones perfect
I deal with new laws enforced that makes it psychically impossible for me to what I want now, I deal with strangers every day until the point I break,
But I've gotten past that point now and no ones noticed.

How are we supposed to write what's already been written?
How are we supposed to change what society has dictated?
How are we supposed to make life happy again? When all I want to do is scream

Sometimes I wonder if life will get better
If everything will change, even for a second
But then I remembered what world we live in.
Nothing will change on its own and no one will do anything about it
So we have to cope under these conditions
We have to learn to survive even if it means we can't truly live,

Because in the end, we can only hope that our suffering will mean something, and with every scar that may be left behind will reveal a story. A story that says "I survived"
And that's what we'll do!