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If you've tried to get close to me but my guard was up.

If I've pushed you away.

Or I didn't try to make you stay.

It wasn't that I didn't care

I just figured you knew that I did.

How selfish of me to think that you could hear the thoughts I wasn't even sure of yet.

It wasn't your fault,

I take full blame.

So now I'm alone

And it'll probably always be that way.

You tried to welcome me.

I'm not fully okay with myself,

So I didn't see your gesture.

To my old buddy ,

My long lost friends,

To my almost lover ,

And my ex bestfriends,

I'm so sorry.

This is my lesson learned

Don't let fear take the fun away.

A heavy heart

held down by fear

will it be me

or my brother next year?

I can’t help but be resentful

to pull at the fraying ends

when we are marked as animals,

target practice

we need an answer

for why they hate us

degrade us, murder us

in the street it

while our justice system

congratulates them, pays them

while they get rich, we bleed