We Are Not Gone pt.2

We are teenagers, this is Us

Hear our heartbeats, breathe our air, taste our words--

Our lives are not at all what we’re told they’ll be.

The pictures we are in are beautiful 

Because we make them so

Because no one sees the battle we fight to make them so. 

Because we shed our armour before anyone can see it,

Because we wipe away the blood and sweat and tears

 And hide the chainmail under our baggy t-shirts

And say

I am fine

I am fine

I am fine

We are teenagers, this is Us

Dancing on coals, embers rising
Embrace the pain, call it pleasure

Overly dramatic, too much emotion, because

Chemical coursing through our brains and besides

The world is our stage

And we

We are the actors
People are scared of us but

We’re scared of us too

We are teenagers, this is Us

Sarcastic laughter, hugs and high fives

Because isn’t life just so funny?
Headphones in, drown out what words we hear

And fill our minds with words we feel like listening to

We are young and dumb and have OUR lives to live

And dammit, but we are going to

We are teenagers, this is Us

Dancing in the soaking rain, arms and faces lifted
Christmas lights wound around our bodies, spray paint and blush staining our skin
We are greenpurpleorangeiceyellowpinkpinkhotbluebrokenbeautifulredscreamingatthesky--

Fingers tangled in hair, urgent  hormones rushing through
Oxytocin is like alcohol, turning our vision red and making our heartbeats quicken

We are teenagers, this is Us

Learning how to say “I love you” 
In spanish, french, italian
Our reasoning?

Because why the hell not

Photos dangle on strings from wooden beams
This is the past

This is the present

I don’t have pictures of the future

We are teenagers, this is Us

Don’t you remember?
Is what we’ll say in 50 years

But for now, live in the moment

We are teenagers, this is Us

We Are The Future