Parents

Sometime when the world deals a blow and has dazed us
It's good to think back to the parents who raised us
Your mothers gave birth, as mothers have to do
She went through great pain just to give birth to you

Then growing up, they dealt with all your palaver
Not just sibling fights, or having the floor be lava
Those times when you were small, so tender and weak
When you were born you were so fragile and meek

Though they must have been scared, they still stayed and tried
Every parent has that scare when they think their child has died
Just a little too cold when the child wakes up in the morning
Or when everything suddenly goes quiet with no warning

They've cared for you as they cared for their spouse
Once they left you on your own for the first time in the house
And, still remembering the first time you went to A&E
Still allowed you to become little by little more free

So just remember, given what your parents went through
That the only reason they did any of that, was for you
From before you were breathing, right up to now
So if your a parent, take a well deserved bow



Editorial Note: This is written to be generic, but also to reflect my own experience of my parents. I'm aware there's people who grow up with single parents (who are a whole other branch of amazing) or with non-birth parents, etc.. Regardless, most of you grew up with someone whom, even if you didn't always see eye to eye, cared for you when you were young and got scared when you did something dangerous. This is dedicated to them.

A Bad Day

If you're having a bad day, this a message for you
Written on a letter, sealed with love and glue
For you to open, whenever it's a struggle to get through
This bad day is one we're both gonna beat black and blue

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Dear friend in the wilderness. Dear voice in the mist
Sometimes it seems like our fate has been kissed
Days when we're not tired and sick, days when all will go well
But this is dedicated to those days when you go through hell

Here's a fact. You've been through plenty of struggles in your life thus far
These struggles don't make us stronger or weaker. They make us who we are
I can say for sure, when this day is finally through

You're going to emerge as a different you

Let me say something else, no matter what challenge you face
We all have reasons to be setback in the human race
The reason can be clear, something we can see touch and feel
Other times it's not. Rest assured that this battle's still real

When all is done and the dust can finally settle
Please appreciate the toughness and strength of your mettle
It's the challenges of life that make it great
It's often struggles that make us remember the date

You're someone who has woken up, and somehow always found a way
To have a 100% hit-rate of surviving each day
Then just consider this related fact to be so true
That no bad day of yet has ever survived you

The famous girl

She had that beauty which came from getting up an hour earlier than the sun
And staring endlessly into the mirror willing herself through the next day
Even with a sense of anxious pride about who she was and what she'd done
There was only one small part of her that had never wished this life away

No, it was not those startling clear blue eyes, clouded windows to a troubled soul
Nor was it those carefully shaved legs which had walked through a thousand dreams
It was the voice inside that let her know this was her life, this was her goal
She'd deserved the adoration, and every one of her fans' desperate screams

Finally, the world was proclaiming her The Star she'd always wished in her heart
She'd been raised up high for the world to see and adore entirely
She'd never have to worry about loneliness, or the price of her shopping cart
She could shape this reality to however she wished it to be

Taking a deep breath, she made the voice inside slowly silence, then subside
Knowing that overconfidence was a strong bug by which to be bitten
She'd taken a step, when the first embers of her fame had been realised
She got out the well-worn, tear-stained letter she'd written

"Dear Star, for that's who I know you'll be and what you are
Please remember, when life is going far too much your way
That's not just who you are. You're more than a superstar
No matter how fantastic, no matter how glamourous the day

You are me, the girl sat here full of dreams and wishes
You were the daughter of parents who gave you their all
Though you may one day be served as one of high society's great dishes
Please remember that both gravity and pride can make stars fall

It is not wrong to be liked. It is not wrong for effort to meet reward
Just remember that whatever else, you are still you. Signed lovingly, you!"
She'd taken these words with as much care as she could afford
After all, she was The Star, and it was all she could ever do.



Inspiration from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UznHTBZIa8E and the very wonderful comic, "The Wicked + The Divine"

We're Animals

Sometimes I like to say
Let's go wild and adventure
So lets go to our baser nature
And be animalistic in how we play

Yet

I don't wanna be a jellyfish
     'cause without needing to wish
        you can already see right through me
I don't wanna be a zebra neither
     'cause I don't need ya
          to spend that much time crossing me

I don't wanna be a lion
     I'm not lyin'
          I don't wanna have that much pride
I don't wanna be an armadillo
     Couldn't be your pillow
         I just wanna be right there by your side

I don't wanna be a bat
     Or a rat or a cat
         Or anything else in fact than what you see
I don't wanna be a tortoise
     Or a porpoise
           Or anything other than you and me

I don't wanna defend
    The fact I wanna to spend
          Every second at your beck and call
In the end,
    Let's not pretend
         We're anything but animals after all