Our Untold Wars

They tend to contradict us a lot simply based on how we act

Though our intentions aren't to disappoint them, but to please them

Some say that whatever we speak is lies and trouble 

The way I see it, you can't judge if you haven't heard our side of the story

 It might be our fault that we are the way we are

But we aren't entirely to blame, the ones that raised us should take some of the blame

Dressed in red vans, white shirt, and blue jeans

We are another world, so stop trying to fix us to fit us into yours

Every time we speak doesn't you mean you should cancel us out

When we say what we think or feel doesn't make us opinionated

When we get in trouble at school for incorrect uniform, back chatting to teachers

Doesn't make us troublemakers nor school rebels

We're just trying to live our lives in our own way, we don't mean to be insensitive 

Though you think that the world's gotten easier as you've grown up

Doesn't imply that we are gonna agree with you

This is our generation, we see a lot of stuff every day

Stripped of our innocence at such a young and tender age

The children that you train from a younger age will grow up to become their own people

The pain, the sorrow, the grief, the joy and happiness

Will lead to whom they are meant to be in their final stage of life

To the broken hearted mentors

The job that you did was wonderful, you raised a great teen

What you forgot to see that we matured

You still think of us as your little ones, which is fine 

However, you can't tell us that the world is easier because

For some of us, it's not, we see and we understand

You can't protect us from pain anymore, we've already endured it

For all those self-absorbed, wretched, secluded adults

You can't tell us that we don't know what war is because we do

Every teenager has their own personal war they go through every day

     You may think we don't know a lot of things, but you're wrong

You see, you've undermined us for so long that from that we learned how the world worked

So whenever an adult tells you, you don't comprehend what they are saying;

Simply answer them back in a polite manner

"I may not be able to comprehend what you're saying but at least I've managed to survive my own war. Every time I got beat down. I got up. I never gave up no matter how much I wanted to. You weren't the only ones to have wars. We have one every day. And the tragic thing is that it's with our own selves. Can you comprehend what I'm saying?"  

Dressed in black boots, ripped tights, white tee said "I hate people", ripped grey skinny jeans

We know we're misunderstood, we know we can survive the world 

Because the wars we've fought and won were scarier than the world

The worst kind of war anyone could ever face is a war with themselves