Poem Essay: Sunken Dreams: Floating Thoughts

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Sunken Dreams,
Floating Thoughts

They said dream on dreamer, keep on floating
The dreams they turn to nightmares and keep on growing
All this stress in my head, it's hard to keep going
To keep flowing, to walk around with all these problems that I can't be showing
Start to wonder, why do I need to be outgoing?
So eventually we stop dreaming and we start knowing
We start to know not to dream big, it's easier to stop now than to try to cross the bridge

Yeah I know about the opportunity, switched up my ways now I'm one to look down
Speaking deep trying to get through to me, I have to succeed because I can't let them down?
Smart, athletic, gifted, they tell me, yet I’m always being held down
By myself, I bottle my issues then put them on the
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A bunch of countries are doing it these days
I'm getting very sick of this endless assignment relay, it's like I wake up and they just hit replay
And most of the stuff we learn doesn't prepare me for real life, chemical bonds are more important than learning how to do my taxes right?
Learning is such an awesome thing, I tend to get more serious about it as the years go on, but sports and homework plus you have to wake up at dawn?
1:30 in the afternoon and I'm seeing people yawn, try to stay optimistic for what's in store
I just want to explore, the earth and see what we were once apart of

We became the apex predator and tore up the world because
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We don't live to die, we live to be remembered.”
He left on that note with a lot of time to ponder, 2 am walking with night I just like to wonder
I cannot focus if I have a 24/7 monitor
This statement was really a question in disguise, sometimes you have to switch up the angle to truly get between the lines
Like Sherlock Holmes with poetry, but he read between the lies
If you're not remembered did you ever even live life?
So if you want to really live it's not about the money or making it big
It's about making a difference, changing the world in some way
Some differences go unnoticed, others get a screenplay
If we did it for the recognition it would always go unnoticed, because to get people on board you too have to be devoted
Started making a difference, now I'm a valued component
My decisions are my own, my life I have to own it
People keep deciding my life and I just stand there and condone it
The old way? I disowned it, to make a difference in the world I have to make a difference in my life, I have to get my shit together before I go giving out

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