I don’t want to grow up

 

I don’t want to grow up

And I know that makes me seem just as immature as the rest

A teenager, no less

But let me explain myself.

 

My little eyes were filled with dreams

So many opportunities

A firefighter

A teacher

Even a queen

So many options to see

Five year old me just couldn’t wait to grow up

 

But now-a-days being a teacher seems just as safe as the rest

All I see on the news is gun arrest

Student protest

North America has had 18 school shootings in north America alone

School is suppose to be just as safe as my own home

But recently

I don’t feel safe leaving in the morning

 

Barely any of us do

Watching our world fall apart from inside our rooms

Our parents call us immature

For not wanting to grow up

Go outside

But have they ever asked us why?

Because maybe

We have a reason

We’re shunned for the causes we believe in

Racism is back in season

As we watch our neighbouring country fall apart

We’re going back in time

Are we growing up

Or getting younger

 

Because sometimes I even wonder

How I’m suppose to live in a world

Where there are more wars

Than all my fingers and toes put together

Yet still not enough money on the globe

To kill the disasters killing us slowly

 

We’re just a herd of sheep in this corrupt society

How could I live in such an economy

Where my own father is scared for my living

Where we pay our parents leftover bills

We have college funds

And student debts

That I don’t know how I’ll pay off

While I’m still making 87 cents to the Canadian males dollar.

 

The wage gap is honestly such an honor to  be a part of

Until the wage gap isn’t the only thing we’re being affected by

Everyday we are sexualized

We live in a world of feminazis

When being a feminist is suppose to mean equality

I don’t know what we’re trying to fight for anymore

 

Because all it’s really trying is my patience

As another rapist walks the streets

As victim is turned to culprit

As her bare shoulders

Down a dark alleyway

A little too early in the morning

Is what was “asking for it”

This is why we don’t want to go outside

 

I’m scared to grow up

I don’t want to grow up

I don’t want to grow up

because what if by the time I grow up

there’s nothing to grow up to anymore

Besides the leftover blood

Of our own wars

 

Why would I want to grow up into a life I was born to fail in

Everyone knows us as the ticking time bomb of a generation

How do we have faith in ourselves

When no one else believes in us either

Why

Tell me why

I would ever

In this world

Want to grow up

 

2 thing I like:

I think I chose a really good subject that most people can relate to and understand.

I think my spoken word was very strong and caught peoples attention

 

2 things I think I could improve on:

I think I could have been more fluid in my presentation

Put more emotion into my presentation