We're tricked, we're fooled
Adults feed us lies
We're treated like illiterate apes
Underestimated constantly
Trained to be perfect adults
To submit to society
But they don't teach us what's important
Like how to stand up
For ourselves and for a greater good
Or how to carry on alone
We're treated like babies
Regardless of our age
Adults seem to think
We can't handle anything
Can't handle knowledge beyond preschool curriculum
Can't handle the real world
If that's true
Than what, exactly, are we to do?
When they kick us out
And expect us to find our way?
All our lives we're sheltered
And now they suddenly expect us
To cope on our own without
Any knowledge of the real world.
YOU ARE READING
Poems
PoetryI wrote poems regularly for about two years to get me through a particularly hard time on my life, and here they are. (Don't read if swearing/possible triggers are a problem for you.)
