I Like To Write Poetry
Why I Have An Edge
I guess it started off by being picked last
Or being picked on til I got ticked off in class
When I never received a Valentine, made me feel the worst way
Especially since Feb 14 is my birthday
Probably at many dances when when I ended up alone
Never got many chances to whisper sweet nothings on the phone
I think it was when I overheard the teachers laughing overjoyed
At the mere thought that I was the ugliest of all the boys....confidence destroyed
Or did it make me lash out? I can't remember but I understand a little
You see it's hard to be seen befriending a young teen with an overbite who is a bit plump in the middle
To solve the riddle of why is as complex as it's simple
I guess my saving grace if I had one was no pimples
Ha, but all the other quirks, fat kid, spoke frenetic
I had em all, buck toothed, really short non athletic
Where'd the edge come from?
Oh you still don't get it?
My attempts at socializing at the best pathetic
Chances of a easy adolescents shined dimly
I got into it with a classmate, no surprise whole class against me
Hmmm like that from the 7th to the 10th
Fast forward taller skinny with braces in three years taunts I'm facin'
Awkwardly clumsily oh so many adverbs
Because before Obama it was not cool to ever be a Black nerd
I carried it all on my shoulder
Ready to lash out on the poor fellow who didn't get my rage could turn my hands to boulders
Never being good enough
Not saying woe is me because I'm sure many adolescents had it tough
Not being invited to parties because I wasn't fly or a popular guy....
Yeah I could guess that's why
I have an edge.....
I guess it started off by being picked last
Or being picked on til I got ticked off in class
When I never received a Valentine, made me feel the worst way
Especially since Feb 14 is my birthday
Probably at many dances when when I ended up alone
Never got many chances to whisper sweet nothings on the phone
I think it was when I overheard the teachers laughing overjoyed
At the mere thought that I was the ugliest of all the boys....confidence destroyed
Or did it make me lash out? I can't remember but I understand a little
You see it's hard to be seen befriending a young teen with an overbite who is a bit plump in the middle
To solve the riddle of why is as complex as it's simple
I guess my saving grace if I had one was no pimples
Ha, but all the other quirks, fat kid, spoke frenetic
I had em all, buck toothed, really short non athletic
Where'd the edge come from?
Oh you still don't get it?
My attempts at socializing at the best pathetic
Chances of a easy adolescents shined dimly
I got into it with a classmate, no surprise whole class against me
Hmmm like that from the 7th to the 10th
Fast forward taller skinny with braces in three years taunts I'm facin'
Awkwardly clumsily oh so many adverbs
Because before Obama it was not cool to ever be a Black nerd
I carried it all on my shoulder
Ready to lash out on the poor fellow who didn't get my rage could turn my hands to boulders
Never being good enough
Not saying woe is me because I'm sure many adolescents had it tough
Not being invited to parties because I wasn't fly or a popular guy....
Yeah I could guess that's why
I have an edge.....
31-35, M
