I'M Tired Poem by Allysyn Bryant

Sometimes I feel like a dog in a rat’s cage
Feeling of dying, crying, and losing myself
I’m not sure of what more I can handle
I bottle up my anger til I can’t take it anymore
Then I wanna yell and scream to make my point
But normally at the end of the day
I just let my tears take me away

It’s such the little things that keep me alive
They’re happy as long as they can take pride
In everything that I do, I MUST succeed
Not for a moment may failure take me
How do they expect me to believe
When they take all that’s special to me
The little things are all I need

My cell phone, for one, to you ay seem small
But for me, it’s my family, friends, and all
Through this I can speak to those I wish to see
And allows me to still keep a dream
These days it’s hard to do
When every time I turn, I’m doing something wrong, yet again
I’m beginning to think that they make new rules
Just so they can say
Allysyn you’re wrong, fix it before it’s too late

Do this and do that, to the point I want to scream
Please just let me, for once be free
Here I am, only sixteen, yet I feel like I’m twenty-three
They tell me to grow, yet when I do
They say I’m too young
I’m to the boiling point, ready to just burst to flames!

I’m tired of this; I’m tired of being mad
I’m tired of chores and of being sad
I want to run, far and as fast as I can
Yet I know that I just can’t
Not while I’m still tied with chains
Let me be free, free to breathe…
I’m too tired now, aching from anger and pain
Not sure of how much more I can take
I’m tired of this life; it’s all too fake
Someone come save me, before I fall
My anger gone, I can no longer stall
I’m tired now, and still there’s no one
No one there to catch me as I fall…

August 27th,2008