Stand

Author's Note: Seeing as I missed the start of NaPoWriMo, I decided to start on a little project of my own to make up for it.

Starting today, I'm going to be setting my music player on shuffle and put the first 10 songs that come up in a list every day. I'll pick 3 songs and write a poem based on each song, then I'll pick a random word from a random book each day and write a poem based on that. Hopefully, I can keep this up for 31 days. XD I should have 124 poems by the end of the 31 days. O_O

So this is one of the 4 poems I wrote today for that. This was inspired by the song "Change" by Taylor Swift. It's not very good, but the reason I'm doing this project is because I want to try changing my writing perspectives and themes. XD
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You look at the ones
who stand in your place.
There they are,
with a smile on their face.

You can't understand
the feeling in your heart.
You guess it's unfair,
because you've worked so hard.

The truth is, you've lost.
Yet again, it's all the same.
Somehow you just can't escape,
because you're always second-rate.

You want to give up,
you want to throw it all away.
But just before you do,
you always find a reason to stay.

People tell you it's worthless,
they say you're wasting time.
But you don't want to listen,
because hell, this is your life.

You might lose, for another time.
But that doesn't matter now.
There's no room for misery,
there's no time to doubt.

Things are going to change,
you can feel it in the air.
It's like what's always said.
You've just gotta hang in there.

Your time will come,
maybe sooner than you think.
because after all,
things turn around in a single blink.

It's easy to give up,
and throw everything down.
It's so easy to go
and give everything up now.

It's hard to say they're lying,
maybe it is all nothing.
But you know you've got to try.
Because this is your everything.

One day you're going to stand,
in that place you should have been
And everyone will know
That's where you're meant to be.