Powerless

Back on the schoolyard we used to be blunt

Taunting and name calling to toughen up the runt

Fun and games until it’s your turn to be the hunt

Start looking for the next victim, pass the blame and punt

Adult days we have to stand and listen to the whining

Everybody online spends all day crying

So much disdain you’d think they are dying

Take energy to the real world, stop fucking trying

Wish that we could call people out like back in the day

Take them aside and tell them hey, Take it down a notch, okay

Don’t you know it’s all a game, anyway

Irony is that trauma brought us here

Trauma a big reason I picked up those beers

Trauma comes from days of youth

Trauma dates back to your first loose tooth

Told to act right, now you questioning your truth

Confidence never built so it can’t shatter

Never realized that you don’t even matter

Don’t take control, waiting to be served a platter

Can never climb if you don’t touch the ladder

Negativity breeds negativity, that much I know

Seems like I encounter it most places I go

I’m working on myself, trying to grow

Everyone around me says it’s not my role

Don’t look from within, demand better

It’s not your fault, no one likes a go getter

Schoolyard taunts turned to group think

Peers don’t want us to feel we have the missing link

Its our responsibility to fix ourselves

Instead of challenging others, we gotta get to work like the elves

Start cleaning up our houses, fixing the shelves

Lose the word powerless if folks worked on themselves