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[sid] => 91142
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Shoots and Ladders
[time] => 2005-04-16 03:59:12
[hometext] => Proformed for Slam. Bold is Person 1. Not bold is Person two. And italics are both. 2nd preformance
[bodytext] => I'm sick of climbing social ladders Just as I get to the top I have to start again I fall down. Down, down, down and become a newborn in a strange world No matter how hard I try I always end up where I have already been. And I can’t get out of this repetitive rut. I climb and fall. Climb and fall. I'm tired of it all and I want to be on top, I don't want to be last. I'm tired of the fall I want to be known, I'm tired of it all Waiting for the promotion, someone comes and my accomplishments are in the past I try so hard, so get back up. I'm nearly there I'm on the top Then here comes this jerk off I'm just another nobody People continue to tell me that life isn't fair when I mention this. Why don't they try to change the ladder? I don’t see why people can’t help each other and stop letting others get battered The last of a dying race, I see what other’s ignore One person can’t change the world, But I sure as hell can try It seems like everyone is against me though. People always saying one person can't change anything. It's yet another thing to climb. I’m fighting for the right to exist, The right to be acknowledged I am here! See me now! If I could just convert a few people, and if they would convert a few people then maybe it wouldn't be such a bind. It seems like no one is accepting Can it be that we’re all in the same rut? Reaching for a top That we’ll always be beaten too Or always fall from We’re always falling And always dreaming I keep reaching for the unreachable and everyone criticizes, while doing the same. If its so wrong why aren't we all content with our lives? Maybe I’m just ahead of my time An elder soul who’s seen it all A knowledgeable one who knows right from wrong But no one understands that and they never will because they are tied down to the ladder beliefs. A social wrong A social acceptance Needs to be a social change But society changes so slowly and takes more effort than anyone wants to put into it. But I won’t give up I want this to change The world needs to better itself One person at a time And even if this ends with me You’ll all remember The choice I made To end the circular social ladder [comments] => 0 [counter] => 164 [topic] => 25 [informant] => saveMEfromMYSELF [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => MiscPoems )
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