Caroline Elizabeth

Passion, Clichés, and No Man\'s Land

I try to avoid being cliché

but that\'s my struggle

every single day.

I know I can\'t write

anything real

except for the feelings

that I feel.

Never different, always

the same emotion

over and over again.

I wish I could feel

anger every now and then.

I wish what I felt wasn\'t a trend.

 

I wish I was Bono

or Lennon or Dylan.

Then I would write about

what I believe in.

My lyrics would be true,

my faith behind.

My passion is my music 

and my life is inside.

 

But what I write,

it\'s all the same!

My entire life it\'s been this way.

And though it\'s my passion,

I can\'t escape the traps

for myself that I\'ve made.

 

\"Let me go, let me go,\" I scream.

I\'m stuck in the mundane

like my worst dream.

I doubt everything I create;

it steals my passion away.

It\'s like war with myself

and in no man\'s land I lay.

 

When will it end? When will I make

something that I love,

something I don\'t hate?

When will I ditch the clichés

and embrace the truth

of who I am despite my youth?

When will I be like the men I most admire

and create something

to set hearts on fire?