My thoughts run fast like a track team

It's never very often I can grasp my thoughts for long enough to express them whole-heartedly. This is what happens when I can harness them

We sat along the sidewalk,

Of this newly barren place,

With tons of time to waste,

We chose to speak so subtly,

On the decline of the human race.

Yeah, each face takes up space,

empty in their own shells.

Souls just wander, avoiding personal hell,

Well, I wish you well,

even though in the past I've fell.

This is a world I once knew

Yet I hear it clearly,

You speak, so close near me;

"I want to be like you"

In the end.. you won't

So please, just, don't..

Wear someone elses shoes.

Walk the beaten path,

Bridge all your gaps,

Feel like an a*s and laugh.

Eventually you'll forget your past, fast.

Faster than you ran from your ugly inner self you hide.

Stay confident, continue to try.

Don't stop to ask why,

False gratitude, and no one even knows you lie..

Reach for your piece of the pie,

like it's been spray painted and faded

with the constellations in the sky.

Continue onto sublime,

and if you never reach it,

Hell..you'll have a story to tell

and a million ways to teach it.

Believe it, you've got it in your spirit,

Don't you dare fear it.

Actually, I recommend you move a little closer near it.

Do you hear it?

Your mind, negotiating with your morals,

mental quarrels sometimes become halted for us.

Now you're set up,

press fast forward through your goals,

You've planted flag poles

and claimed this land as yours..

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[William F. Whaley]

I think that I should show my mom this poem; it reminds me a lot of how she's set herself up in avoiding life, avoiding knowing herself, etc.