Be brave

 

It's okay

To say:

Today 

I'm not okay

And to just be not okay

In your own little way.

Be brave.

Burning

 

I have been balling my fists

And I have been fighting.

With tears on my cheek,

I have been crying.

Wondered if my friends

Might soon be dying.

For 10 months 

I have been watching.

How with hook, line and

Sinker, they've been talking.

Reeling us in on lies

They are spreading.

The wares they got,

They are selling,

I don’t want it

But you’re demanding

That I take it cause I'm a burden.

So you're killing me here

And you’re laughing.

My death is

Having you smiling.

My body is

The thing you're hiding.

So you could be

Denying,

You don’t know

What you are doing.

This page in history

Is burning.

Ik tel ook mee

 

Mijn stem doet ook mee,

Ik ben niet stil.

Sterke meningen

En sterke wil.

Woorden sterven

Zelden op mijn tong.

Ik ben wat ik ben

En waar ik voor op kom.

Maar er zitten altijd

Handen op mijn mond,

Die proberen te doen

Alsof ik nooit bestond.

Trekken de stem

Uit de diepte uit van mijn keel,

Uit mijn handen,

En mijn wil.

Stop! Stop!

Ik heb recht op mijn woorden

En je kan niet doen

Alsof je mij niet kan horen.

Ik tel ook mee,

En ik heb een stem.

Geef mijn recht op mijn recht

Terug en wen

Aan dat ik je pijn 

Niet langer accepteer.

Geef mijn stem terug,

En steel het nooit meer.

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Tears like rain

 

Today

I am made of pain.

Happy smiles,

And tears like rain.

Optimism

And negative voices.

Hope that

Runs dry and stained.

I might be

Afraid,

That all this come together

Ends up in vain.

That everything I do

Goes down the drain.

Still I keep fighting

With happy smiles

And tears like rain.

Puppets

 

We are all puppets

In this puppetshow.

Strings

Attached to hips

And sunken into our bones.

Front seats,

Drunken treats,

To put down our stones.

Sunken mentality,

Smiles covered in snow.

You are buried

On the bottom of the sea.

You stopped seeing 

What the water is doing.

And when it comes to a we,

You stopped caring

A long time ago.

So will you just let it be?

The status quo

To eternity?

But you better 

Let me add my voice

Into the myriad of voices

That had enough.

Don’t take my choice. 

I want to

Lift us up

And I want to hoist

The flag onto a future

In which we all matter.

Isolation

 

Oh yeah you are right,

It has snowed.

It only took me to

4pm to finally know.

Time has me captured

In movement so slow.

An outside world

I no longer know.

F your protest

 

I don’t think you care,

I don’t think you have feelings.

You think yourself a hero,

But your actions have no meaning.

Your heart is made of ice,

And it will never be melting.

You are not fighting for freedom,

People are dying.

You have a big hero complex.

And it is taking you through the roof.

An ego made to explode on you.

What do you think it is you do?

You are nothing more than the jester,

You are the clown, the fool. 

You are not the victim,

You never was.

You are just the bully,

You play the villain part.

So cry your tears 

But don’t expect us to care.

You are the wrong side

Of history, my dear.