Submissions by writes_2_express

I'm in hate with my life,
It shows me nothing but grief.
It laughs in my face and tells me to quit
To grab the gun and say I forfeit
To surrender my soul to the hounds of hell.

I look at my life and think, "Why not?"
"What's in it for me to keep living this way?"
"Pain? Misery? Loneliness?"
Nothing but cold tears and burning hatred.

It seems so unfair to see people happy and content,
As I walk around with a mask on
Smiling and laughing like everyone else.
While all I'm really doing is screaming on the...

To be a man is not to be of age.
To be a man is to take a stand.
To be who you are is to be a man.
To be a man is to enjoy the day.

It'd be a lie to say that men don't cry,
When men who cry are men who are true.
True to themselves and true to love.
Men who love are men of joy,
While men who hate are not men at all.

Men who hate are mere children
Beaten and scared by life.
Children who have not yet learned to love,
Children who have rejected forgivness.