This was a poem I wrote for a school project. Part of the project was taking excerpts from other pieces and then creating your own around them. I picked the songs “father of mine” by Everclear, and “holding on to you” by twenty one pilots. The smaller fonts are the lyrics taken from the songs.
Questions of ignorance.
I hear them often and they never fail to offend me.
Sometimes I feel you must be an infant…. in this instance
Because how could one ask a question of such judgment?
Someone once said to me “Why are you so fun if you're a Christian?”
This question created a stinging in my side
To think those of my own faith would not abide
Being a Christian is acceptance and understanding
Not abandonment and commanding
Father of mine Tell me where did you go You had the world inside your hand But you did not seem to know Father of mine Tell me what do you see When you look back at your wasted life and you don't see me
I’ve been asked why I forgive so easily.
But it is not easy really
Being Christian is to forgiveness
Not to hold a grudge or release stubbornness
Comments of ignorance
They are believed to be of such brilliance or that of a wonderful resistance
Just blurting out sentences about subjects you know nothing about.
But yet they are said without doubt
The word retard was once a medical term
But is now a insult
An ignorant verbal assault
When I hear this word I think of every special needs person stuck in a body to trap there brilliance!
I think of my brother
I think of friends who wouldn't come to my house because “he was weird”
I never stood up for him but I should've stood up for him
Should have stood up for my flesh and blood he is
Lean with it, rock with it, When we gonna stop with it, Lyrics that mean nothing, we were gifted with thought, Is it time to move our feet to an introspective beat, It ain't the speakers that bump hearts, it's our hearts that make the beat.
Questions of ignorance.
I hear them often and they never fail to offend me.
Sometimes I feel you must be an infant in this instance
Because how could one ask a question of such judgment
Comments of ignorance
They are believed to be of such brilliance or that of a wonderful resistance
Just blurting out sentences about subjects you know nothing about.
But yet they are said without any doubt
