A poem I actually wrote! (not autocorrect poetry)

I Want to Write the Truth

By: Julia Stone

I want to write the truth
Words upon words of reality

Listen to me

Do you dream with your eyes open?

Or eyes closed?

Reality awakens us

The cold chill of water in our faces

Shivering, we stumble

Our dreams dampened

The twisted life of an adolescent

Pulled this way

Then another

Never certain

Never sure

I want to write the truth
Words upon words of reality

Who are we really?

Where are we going?

Like sheep

We form herds

Lead us, we plead

But who is our shepherd?

Conditioned to act this way

Expectations

Just lost sheep

We are flawed

We are flawed

Puzzle pieces never quite fitting

Turn it this way

Then another

Never certain

Never sure

Do they know me

Or do they only know my name

Etched upon us like name tags

Reputations stick

We must hurt

To know happiness

We must be happy

To know hurt

But what madness is this thing called life?
That takes me by the hand

Then stabs me in the back

Only to pick me up again

Can’t sleep

Only thoughts

Can’t speak

It’s never for nothing he said to me

No one is immune to his own scrutiny

At the close

It all unfolds

Will we know then

What we do not know now?

I want to write the truth    
Words upon words of reality