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My silence is not equivalent to...

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Just another number
A cog in a machine
Do you even care about me?

Alive and breathing
But you don't care
About my tears drifting into thin air

Stuck in a cardboard square
Hands tied behind
Not a light to find

Rustled from my comfy nest of papers
Thrown out to the water brown
Watch me drown

Cut my head open and take what I know
Pour in ideologies of your own
Killing all the flowers that have already grown

Abandon me and all my promise
Continue to entertain this nonsense
Live with the knowledge that you will lose this

Clouds gather as your red sun shines
And I scream out that I'm still alive
But you leave me to pull myself out and I know I will die

As the sun is setting on another day
You tell them it's perfectly okay
While I bleed all the words I had yet to say
Common core is hate, common core is death.

Well, okay, that's a bit harsh. I just think the way my school is doing it is pretty fuckall, and really leaves all us who have poor social skills out to dry...
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BrookRiver's avatar
Sometimes I feel like knowing the backstory to a work may not be entirely beneficial. XD

I guess it really is pretty bad while you're waist deep in its shit, though. Standardization has its downsides, like when other closely related things don't keep pace...