Battle Song
With every verse
With every line
I write the lyrics that define
These thoughts in my head
This weight on my chest
They want me to write as beautifully as Shakespeare
As modern as Little Simz
With a flow like Kendrick
But somehow still with the appeal of a modern-day-poet
Remembering where I came from
A hospital bed
And a projection that I’d be dead
All I can do now is dig deeper
And forget about all that was said
This is me now
Rejuvenated and rehabbed
Restored and revived
Fighting daily to become
Everything that I was never supposed to
While the outside forces
That periodically get into my head
Tell me that I can’t
I’ll make sure that I will
Because this is bigger
Bigger than a desire
Bigger than me
This is for the many
The ones society tries to define
Plant oneself in tranquility
Because I know that it is there,
that I am more
Than flesh and bones
Muscles and ligaments
More than what society sees
I will not be defined by my inadequacy
Or what I am lacking
But my ability to fight
My ability to write
So while you sit on your throne
And think that you are purely good
I hope that you will come to see
That you are not helping
But putting blockades in place
For people unable to fight
Edited by Seth Paul Williams
