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Better Days

May 29, 2018
By AliveOlyver13 BRONZE, Northglenn, Colorado
AliveOlyver13 BRONZE, Northglenn, Colorado
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Looking for hope

Tired of this pain

I have to choose

The road I take

 

I wish I

Could feel

The joy that

I once felt

But now

It is gone

My heart sings

Out this song

 

Wish it was just a dream

This wasn't happening 

Loking for better days

Than the words that I say

I wish this wasn't real

Everything that I feel

Wishing for better things

Than the words that I sing

 

I don't know where

I want to go

But I know that

Time is so slow

 

I wish I
Could feel
The joy that
I once felt
But now
It is gone
My heart sings
Out this song

 

Wish it was just a dream
This wasn't happening
Loking for better days
Than the words that I say
I wish this wasn't real
Everything that I feel
Wishing for better things
Than the words that I sing

 

I feel broken

But I keep walking 

Cause I know that 

There will be better days

I feel broken

But I keep moving 

Cause I know that

I've had worse days

 

Wish it was just a dream
This wasn't happening
Loking for better days
Than the words that I say
I wish this wasn't real
Everything that I feel
Wishing for better things
Than the words that I sing


The author's comments:

This is a song I wrote about depression and thoughts of suicide from my own experiences, from my friends' experience, and a song I wrote for a friend who ended their own life. I wanted to be able to change people with this song; I wanted to let people get a better understanding and become more aware about suicide, and how it is a problem. I also want people to know that, if they are going through a hard time, they should keep going forward. I don't remember all of the original lyrics, and I've changed a bit of it, but most of it I remembered and left the same.


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on Jun. 18 2018 at 4:28 pm
Rhiannon_4 DIAMOND, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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Favorite Quote:
If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.
- Native American proverb

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas

What is past is past -- it is the present and the future that concern us.
- Hiawatha, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy

This is beautifully well-written!