Shout That's What It's All About!

Clearly my mind comes alive when I am supposed to be asleep or maybe it is just sleep depravation that brings crazy thoughts into my head, anyway here is another poem. Let me know what you think. Chasing Butterflies You can be anything you want to be If only that was true Sadly babies dying in Africa Are not likely to ever be millionaires in Manhattan Sadly a person cannot change where they are born So although we might try and convince ourselves that the above statement is true You can't always be anything you want to be As hard as the chicken might try to fly, it has a 99% chance of falling to the ground, flat on its face And although I might try to tell you that with a little bit of faith and determination you can get anywhere That isn't true because anywhere, is a long way from here At least for me the world isn't where I want it to be But then maybe I am selfish and egotistical But isn't everybody, isn't that how the western wor...

As I sit here writing my first poem Ok sure I have written them before I have written poems for school and projects The ones you write to make them rhyme with every line Because you think that making line rhyme with dime sounds cool Even when it adds no sustenance to the poem Sure I have written poems before, the type that are strewn across adolescent bedrooms at my vain attempt to write a rap, yes a rap, and that was after I realized that I could not sing let alone rap as I have no rhythm. No, what this is, is my first real poem My first poem of meaning, or as my friend says a poem of purpose Because purpose is all that we have in life to make our lives worthwhile Purpose is the glimmering light in the darkness that is sometimes life, it is the star shining for our very existence, urging us to carry on. Without purpose we are but newspaper tossed to the wind A bundle of information with no direct, nobody to read us and make us important I find this ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbG7gokrRAo Really makes us think about the things that we take for granted that may in fact inhibit us in ways we do not realize. For some it is this, for others there are other ways to feel boxed in.........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3elpEYAAuY The first one is my favourite. :)