Your Poetry Dot Com - Gladiator

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don/'/t ask what/'/s wrong and then tell me I need
to stop complaining

You create a battlefield where there isn/'/t one
Stop starting fights for your own entertainment
the gladiators days are over

Even the audience looks tired of your games
they seem as though they are tired,nauseous
at the sight of bloodshed

They whisper at me telling me what I should do
they tell me I need to get down and play dead
but I/'/m tired of this too

And I know that even if I/'/m down you won/'/t stop
kicking me, punching me, anything you can do
to get some sort of reaction

And I know that fighting back is considered a
reaction, but so is remaining quiet,but so is
surrendering, but so is existing

I/'/ve decided I/'/ll kick you back, I/'/ll fight you back
because you don/'/t know how strong I/'/ve become
you still think I/'/m weak

But you don/'/t know how strong my feet have become
how callused they/'/ve gotten walking on the path
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Gladiator
Date: Saturday, 9th January 2016 @ 09:56:23 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: Lydthon15

Don/'/t stab me and then ask why I/'/m bleeding
don/'/t ask what/'/s wrong and then tell me I need
to stop complaining

You create a battlefield where there isn/'/t one
Stop starting fights for your own entertainment
the gladiators days are over

Even the audience looks tired of your games
they seem as though they are tired,nauseous
at the sight of bloodshed

They whisper at me telling me what I should do
they tell me I need to get down and play dead
but I/'/m tired of this too

And I know that even if I/'/m down you won/'/t stop
kicking me, punching me, anything you can do
to get some sort of reaction

And I know that fighting back is considered a
reaction, but so is remaining quiet,but so is
surrendering, but so is existing

I/'/ve decided I/'/ll kick you back, I/'/ll fight you back
because you don/'/t know how strong I/'/ve become
you still think I/'/m weak

But you don/'/t know how strong my feet have become
how callused they/'/ve gotten walking on the path
of eggshells you/'/ve laid out for me

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