"Unidentified"

by Jade S. | KIPP STRIVE Academy | Atlanta, GA

Have you ever wanted to change your personality to please others

Its as if there's a law of worth

Saying your not good enough like some evil curse


You see she tried to exit them from her mind 

But its like shes running out of time

To  please the happiness of others

Friends , cousins, and brothers

Or maybe sisters and mothers


People say Jade’s personality was weird so she changed

“Jade, what's with the new attitude?” so she changed

The years spent on change has claimed my pain

As if im sugar with no cane

Who is Jade ?


Jade is lost and can't find her mind 

That’s lost in the dread and sorrow

She's eaten


As she’s feeding into peoples pleasant surprise

that she’s so happy as she dies inside

She cried


It won’t stop and it never will 

So what am I here for?

Her feelings drooping through the floor

I’m looked at like a dinosaur


Soon she’ll realize

That the things she deprived

Won't always be archived

So she’ll try to survive

Without taking her life


The lack of confidence

Was filled with nonsense

Forcing her to stay silent

As the world takes her innocence

Her heart loaded with incompetence

She thinks about the 740,000 lives

A year 

Taken 

Breaken

Forsaken

So awakened to reality 


There’s no way out but a brutal fatality

49,476 lives just in the USA
They’re expected to stay

Get over it and handle the weight

Slave away and start the next day

No, it’s not like a regular monday


So why do I feel unidentified?

Help!

By not making people cry

Make it to where I don’t feel numb for sleeping at night

Or better yet?

Don’t make them feel empty 

Help their safety 

Take them to therapy

Make them feel like life is a melody 

Help them feel like their life isnt temporary 


You can help change a life

You can help them strive

So help change an unidentified soul

One final time