11-17-16 Shut Up and Explore

 •Shut up and explore• 

You're stuck here 

You're stuck staring at a textbook 

Doing equations and never finding the answers the teacher wants 

Stuck looking up at fancy rings and pretty faces 

Wishing you owned their lives 

There is no escaping it 

Running through every week 

Running through the halls to your next class 

Routine routine routine 

Push push push 

Shove shove shove 

I have to be better than you 

Then you're out of school into an office 

There is no escaping it 

She has the perfect husband 

Five kids and a big house 

Running through every amount of paper work 

Waiting for that Friday night 

But it starts all over 

Out of an office into a nursing home 

Her children visit her every weekend 

They tell her they miss her and bring her chocolate covered almonds and stuffed bears 

You're stuck 

Staring out a window 

Wishing you owned their lives 

There is no escaping it

But, you can accept it 

Days all begin with a starting gun 

You hear the click and blast of the trigger and you're off 

Trying to finish before everyone else 

Running through each day, waiting for that Friday night 

Stop waiting for Friday nights 

Stop waiting till work is over 

Stop waiting for the bell to ring 

You are not guaranteed a trigger warning 

Or your next Friday night 

Enjoy that disgusting cup of cold tea 

Those days when work and school drag you by your throat 

This is no race 

Because some people don't even cross the finish line 

And you might not either 

Stop trying to beat time 

Because it's always ahead of you 

Laughing and snorting 

Enjoy being last place 

Explore your track and field 

Shake hands with your opponents 

You won't be stuck for long 

Stop wishing and start living 

You aren't guaranteed a Friday morning

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