Up/Down - a poem i wrote

When I was little

I wanted to grow up

There are so many things you can do when you’re older

“I could be a doctor, an author, a YouTuber”, I said

“I could take the weight of disrespect off of my shoulders”

But now

I’m in my last year of high school this year

I’ll be turning 18 the next

How stupid I was to think I’d have no disrespect

Now I wanna move out

I disagree with my parents more and more each day

But to have my own house

It’ll take an eternity to find a job with enough pay

I might be able to rent an apartment

To be a tenant, a puppet of fools

To work to get an education to work more

To play by society’s stupid rules

I think if I want to truly have freedom

I’ll have to live in a cottage in the woods

Escape society

But leaving the ones I love won’t do me good

I have to be the change I want to see

I have to convince the powers that be

I’m still just a kid

I hope that they listen to me

But it doesn’t hurt to try, does it?

To keep myself from growing up

In a society that’s going down

We have to go one step at a time

Then maybe we’ll turn everything around