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By Rogelio Villanueva
I was raised to stay quiet
Always kept to myself
Never spoke on the way I felt, the way I thought, or the way it really was
As I grew up I stayed quiet, everyone I knew thought I was stupid, that I wasn’t gonna do anything with my life, telling me I was nothing
Little did they know is that even though I was quiet I was listening, learning
I was learning on how the system worked while my family, friends, and colleagues were trying to play the system without the knowledge, but with ignorance
Knowledge, everyday I lose a bit of my sanity but gain more knowledge
Sanity, knowledge, sanity, knowledge
Which one do I need to survive
To survive in a world were being kindness gets you no where
To survive in a world where the system lied to you
But you don’t care, as long as you getting that paycheck at the end of Friday right?
You don’t care that we’re killing each other everyday
You don’t care that we’re destroying the only world we got
You don’t care that kids nowadays care more about money than knowledge
Hey but at the end of the day I’m just the quiet kid who always looks like he got something on his mind, who always looks like he’s a bitch, who always looks like it’s okay to step over him
I am here to tell you I am not that kid
I will not let your words or looks hurt me no I will not
For today I will let my knowledge show you who I really am
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