I try too hard

I should just let the sun set 
I shouldn't try so hard 
Just to stay stuck in the same place 
I still have time 
To sit and watch the stars 
I shouldn't be in a rush to grow old 

But I want the freedom 
I want to explore the mountains with my friends 
Driving down windy roads 
In Arizona with the windows down 
The air would blow through my hair 
And his too if we stay the same 

But I also want to stay young 
I want to live in the same city 
Where I became a man 
I want my hometown to stay the same 

And I want high school to be better 
I want to be a name people are excited to hear 
But I try too hard 
And right now I just need to let the sun set 

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meandpaul

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    By meandpaul

    What is left

    [This is a reposted edited version of a previous poem of mine.]

     

    when all we have is spent–

    what will we have left?



    people once before us–

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  • Poetry

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    down the street

    i walked down the street
    the streets i once used to know 
    filled with regrets and heavy with burdens 
    of what once happened here

    i walked down the street 
    a block or so down 

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  • Poetry

    By meandpaul

    Dear god, am I real?

    I believe in god even though I may know he doesn’t exist

    I know the mountains were not formed by him

    Instead it is the science in the world

    The reason we are here in this moment


     

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