In Return

Hard fought freedom
Struggles beyond your imagination
Pain now showcased in museums
Real people fought for you
Had foresight to save generations after themselves
Spoke prolific words
Performed heroic actions
Ordinary people
Turned iconic
For you all to emulate and surpass
But in return
You repay them by being so much less
Offspring of the fittest survivors of slavery
Now not even a shell of the past
Do you know what you could and should be
Stop blaming
Aim for the stars
Attempt to succeed
Your failure to act
Hurts my soul
Please act
Move
For you and generations upcoming

Nobody's Nobody

Familiar territory
Defending my singleness
Why don't I have someone
Is a good question
That should never ever
Be asked
I do have someone though
I am Nobody's Nobody
That is me
Not who I want to be
Not content
Dealing with it
Moving forward with my life
By myself
Some people are meant
To live alone
I know I am one of
Those people
I give of me
Little return
That is not why I do though
I give for love
I live for love
Love moves
Love breathes
Love is me
Self love will suffice
The first love
I know well
So when you see me
Know that love lives
In Nobody's Nobody
From a future unknown
I pull from
Feast on the reassurance
Of reciprocity

Quite Clear

Approach
Weak
Maybe you don't know
Top notch
Uber fly
Me
Average clone
Style-less plain
You
I could work with something
But you are not workable
It is quite clear
You cannot
With me
Be anything
Past associate
No disrespect
It is just quite clear