Before This Day
An icy, dark place
Chattering teeth and shaking limbs
A bloodied heart of pitch black
Glistening shards of a broken mirror of memories
Lost in large, damp forests of our deepest fears
Visuals occurring from fading, faltered fractions of a time once thought more of
Sweet alternations to sounds not yet caught truly by man
Scrawling's in a storybook left to leave an indent in this cruel world
Yet others will try to stop you in completing this goal
We are walking blindly with boulders of discrimination rolling down at us
Yet, even if we are walking the tightrope with a blindfold
We never seem to give up, we want to make it to the other side
But, it's harder than we could have imagined
And sometimes people fall or lose their sense of balance
And we may start to look down and become terrified of what may await us
But, everyone has a different type of method to get a mission accomplished
Everyone has their routine that teaches them to calm themselves
But before this day, we cried
We were slowly dying
Slowly, becoming a pool of caked blood left to stain the floor and walls
We can't question why we got here in the first place
As they will throw more weapons of crumbling deaths
We will think of the days we barely dodged the bullets shot at us in the rain
But before this day, we would not fight
But we will now declare war
We will march into force like it's walking to our so-called destiny
We'll hold our guns high in the air
Because of rapid gunshots that ring within our ears, within our minds
That contribute to the pain that we feel when we listen to the blood-curdling screams of those who fought with us in the battle of respect and self-loathing.
As we recall the ones who died in our cause because we just wanted to stop being called hurtful names
Just because we wanted to turn to violence to solve the subject of our equation
The one thing we could think of that seemed logical in the minds full of the two most common colors
Red and blue
Red for our burning thoughts of the most gruesome things we could do to the darkness that surrounds us
Blue for the burning tears that create themselves behind our will, just to dry out our eyes so we don't know when we are being attacked
We fought with force
We may consider turning the gun the other way
We pretend that that is our only way out of this war
The only way to win this war
The only way to end the constant pain and suffering
For we were pushed to the ground because of how capable we were
We lost our sense of security
But they will not win this battle
Even if the skies turn in their favor and throw the worst at us
We will stand tall
We will take every bruise and stitching job they have to offer
For we are not afraid to fight for ourselves, for our comrades
We will win this battle of light and dark
Even if this battle shall never end
We will continue to fight against their transparent armies
For we are called the losers for a reason