This is a collection of poetry I wrote back in high school. I realized just how far I have come in my journey to become healthy, and I think it's time to just share this piece of my life.

Please note that I am okay now, but I just think it's always good to revisit the past, sometimes to see the progress you have made in the present and the hope towards the future.

The Man In The High Seat

You look down upon me,

with a grin that holds back the seething hatred.

You say you care, that you love me,

but we both know that that is a farse and a web of lies.

I am nothing more than a pawn in this game,

I am nothing more than a way for to look towards the future.

But I will never be nothing more,

than a spec upon the earth while you sit up tall,

so far up in your own sky.

Life Revisited

The tables have turned, oh boy, the tables have turned.

For years I was nothing more than the butt of your jokes,

a piteous endeavor for you pretend to love.

Now you sit there, stagnant in a life that seems recursive,

and I just can't help but smile.

I was once like how you are now, saddened by the way your comfort in ignorance crumbles around you.

But unlike you, I rose up against those issues,

and I found to make my own life better than it is now.

Guess that's the difference between you and me, and what is meant to become of who we are.

This Mountain

Everyone thinks that it is just in your mind,

that you can just snap out of it by a single thought.

In reality, it is the hardest thing to overcome,

stress of everyday life becomes just too much to bear.

Yes, oh yes, death is a welcomed gesture in my eyes,

I’m sick of this mountain reaching far above the clouds,

and the journey I’ve been on to overcome it.

Things aren’t looking up, though,

I can tell you that.

The Fallen

Through suffering and pain, you made your mark on this world,

you toiled through every hardship that existed.

But, I ask you, what was your reward?

Spending years working, for just a few years of happiness,

or is it the pain knowing that you stepped over others to get where you are today?

The ones who supported you, who loved you through all the wrongs.

Remember your family, who never let you become,

One of the fallen.