Chameleon

Some days I wake up and feel like crying

I’ve been through so much, just keep trying

I’m tired of this life, I just want to escape

To run away from it all, totally change shapes

Become a chameleon, blend and disappear

Not put up with this s**t year after year

I want to be free, float off and fly like a bird

This life is not meant for me, haven’t you heard

Sleep through the hard parts I used to endure

I’ve grown up too fast, learned to mature

Now is my chance to figure out a plan

To pack up and leave just because I can

If I stay here too long, I might never leave

Forget about dreams, forget to believe

I’ll be like everybody else, a clone, the same

Even go as far as forget my own name

So I need to travel far and never look back

And not wander off of this new golden track

 

Reviews

[Carole]

Some days I wake up and feel like crying

I've been through so much, just keep trying

I'm tired of this life, I just want to escape

To run away from it all, totally change shapes

Become a chameleon, blend and disappear

You have definitely hammered some human emotion that the majority of us have experienced at one time or another. I love the candidness in this piece. Thanks for sharing so freely, Kat! Carole

[Kevon]

I love poetry that has a true message....Especially when it rhymes, Poetry is a gateway to the soul, a different place, A different mind

[Lindsey]

Very inspiring. :)

[Alessander]

You adress a primal desire in humans: escapism. Every thinking person at one time or another has had this irrepresable to just get out of this existence. In fact, religions were born from this yearning. You do a really good job of using good rhymes and not contorting the syntax, which show that you have some experience with form. The rythm is good too, but I think can be tighten up in a few places (though of course you would lose a little meaning for rythm's sake). Maybe also break it up into couplets?

[Beyond the Beat]

Seems quite honest write to me....As if the seven year dial has called your number. Sometimes you gotta leave your footprints in the dusty track right enough, but everyone yells from horizon now and then and looks for the rainbow on a sunfilled day. Some sip the coffee, some put the shades on and head into the sunset to look for something that never exists. follow your heart.. is the best start, writing it down leads your soul into a strangers town... meanwhle life's candles Smokin ... Burn baby burn... Nice write for conversationists...
Ag

[Phil R Jacobsen]

Right there with ya sister. Good one. "Sleep through the hard parts I used to endure," is my favorite line. Did that few times in the piss small town I grew up in. It wasn't phony, liked that.

[Nely Amorim]

I've felt these emotions too.. and also the feeling you have when you think your life doesn't count..like why were you put on this earth? what purpose? It's a painful place to be... your words were brutally honest. well written and thanks for sharing.

[Seriana]

Wow, what a great way to put it. I really like this one. It's exactly how I feel most days, so it hit a nerve. I really enjoyed your honesty in this one. I particularly liked these lines:
Become a chameleon, blend and disappear
Not put up with this s**t year after year

It really feels like that sometimes, doesn't it? Great job Kat!