You Cant Break Me

Not just a survivor, I am a combatant
silently stalking the path least traveled
 
It's best you get out of my way  
Else be prepared to pay
  
Your dignity will be my trophy  
 
 
I am a gladiator, each day my arena  
Fighting for just one more breath  
I scream, I bleed, I plead, I fall  
You’ll never get to savor my death

Once again I find strength after all  
Dazed, shaken, yet I stand tall  
 
I may be broken, haunted  
exhausted beyond reason, taunted  
You will never get me to kneel  
I pray, take your best shot  

See? You’ll never bring me to heel  
For I am everything you are not  
 
You believed yourself superior  
legacies attached to your name  
A pedestal was your footstool  
Tell me, now who is the fool?  

Adjust, adapt, do keep up  
The world is no longer the same.

There are those who will disguise you    
for not falling for their lies      
There are those who will despise you    
and plan on your demise      
There are those who will not hear you    
for you’re not their ideal of wise    
and those who will divide you    
for in unity strength lies    
     
There are those who try to keep you    
and destroy your self belief      
and those who overload you    
while falsely offering relief      
there are those who build you    
to be what you are not      
and those who will deny you    
claim that they forgot      
     
There are those who say they know you    
while whispering amongst spies    
and ridicule you      
as they paint themselves as wise    
There are those who want to be you      
while trying to make you more like them      
and those who will never see you    
until they’re forced to look again      
     
There are few who really know you    
like you for all you are    
and one or two who will truly aid you    
to push beyond the stars    
But lots who will claim they made you    
say without them    
you would have never got this far    
as they drink away their failures      
‘till last orders at the bar    
      
You are the one that made you      
with some help    
there is little doubt      
So claim your own successes      
you don’t have to scream and shout      
Know your worth      
go get what you deserve      
look the world in the face    
and keep your nerve

What a life when trapped inside the mind    
But a choice I have on the way I paint it  
Gray doesn't seem like the right fit    
When my surrounding commit    
Better, different, brighter color    
Yellow will shine inside my mind    
Aware to what I am and I hope to become    
Keeps me stroking the brush on my gray canvas.  
    
This life, all I have known since birth    
challenges me to break, shade a tear    
At times it wins but I see clear    
No out without in, no sun without dark    
No scars without sin, I stay awake in the fire.

All I could see was destruction.
The hole you left in my heart, gaping.
Was this idea of your construction?
To add desolation with no hope of escaping.

You claim to have lost your love for a while.
If that is true, then why did you remain?
Was you leaving me for another an example of your guile?
After all this was not the first time you hurt another for your personal gain.

You have left, but your memory will stay.
Your image forever engraved into my brain.
How I wish your presence upon my mind would go away.
After all your memory is nothing more than a stain.

You tugged and you tugged, on my heart with a string.
You should have know it takes more to de throne a king.

I was born right before a hurricane,
Grams said it was nonstop wind and rain,
But the storm didn’t break us down,
When I was older the civil war came,
Dodging bullets is not a game,
But I didn’t let that break me down.

I’ve seen shit no man should ever see,
I’ve felt the tracers fly past me,
All I could do was just hit the ground,
I was only but eight years old,
To survive I had to be bold,
Because death makes a loud sound.

But of all the scariest things I’ve seen,
(Some of you will know what I mean)
And this one really takes the crown,
Was the time I was near my slaughter,
When I raised my teenage daughters,
But still they couldn’t break me down.