Healing
By Yomato Ishida

My head hurts as though hit by a train,
My heart beating quickly inside of me,
The wounds of battles only starting to heal.
My many wounds surely won't all heal,
The scars on my soul won't go away.
I try not to think of how things were,
Think of the now forget about then.
Try your schoolwork,
Practice with the band,
It's all so busy I can't comprehend,
How people expect me not to be over-whelmed,
By the amount of things they want me to do.
Make priorities make dinner make your science project too,
It's all to much for one kid like me to do!
Save some for later save the world,
How am I supposed to do it all?!
Try to think and try to act,
I feel like I'm on the wall I've been tacked!
Open the mail open the door open your heart,
How am I supposed to cope?
Close the door close the book close your mind,
How can you expect me to do so much?
Test tomorrow test your reflexes test your heart,
You're telling me to do things that I find I can't!
Find the book find the ingredient find yourself,
You really want me to do it all!
Write your report write a song write a novel too,
What do you really want me to do?
I'm just a kid so don't push me so hard,
You have no idea what goes on inside.
I can save the world and open the way,
But you want me to do so much more!
A vacation is out of the question,
And I can't tell you what happened that one summer.
Maybe you can guess maybe you can't,
But isn't it time you stopped pushing me so hard?
Someday maybe I'll meet someone,
Have someplace to go on Saturday evenings,
What will happen then?
The band is practicing three nights a week,
This girl wants to see me on Saturday,
My homework's piling up.
The stress is high it's the middle of the school year,
Cut me some slack will you okay?
My friends want me to hang out after school on Tuesday,
The band's got a concert on Sunday and I've gotta be there,
The world needs saving see ya' later.
I just can't deal with all this pressure,
Maybe I can try and handle it better.
Just stop pushing me I've got things to do.
Home on Wednesday but only then,
I'll make dinner while you go to bed.
Having a movie night next Saturday with my friends,
I don't want to go out with that girl more than once.
Don't ask who's house I'll tell you then,
Don't ask for the number it's lost in the mail,
Don't make me tell you who'll be there,
It's just my friends and some friends of theirs.
The band won't be there,
It's just a few blocks away.
Their parents will be home,
Don't worry so much all the time.
School's going good for me I guess,
But I still hate it and all the tests.
My grades are fine,
Yeh I'll remember that.
Don't tell me twice how to do it,
Just let me go let me get at it.
I'm a big boy now,
Just let me handle it.