The Test

I feel as if I'm falling in between the lines I walk.
I cannot escape the way I am, the way I rhyme, the way I talk.
And yet I would be silenced by those with whom I share
For not only do they disapprove, they fervently don't care.

And would these relentless evils make my spirit break?
I wot succumb to demons, my souls they shall not take.
This unyielding fact confuses them because they still do try
My will is too strong, my heart too unmoved and remains that way til' I die.

Remind me again what is so great
To lose yourself in delusions? To tempt your fate?
Far greater a person has tempted my being
They too lost because of what they're not seeing.

I am quick as the day is long,
The endless echo of a lover's song.
And live forever in this moment's bliss
I work, I aim, I shoot, I miss.

And yet I do entreat my myself to try
To brush of the rest and learn how to fly.
For if my wings are bound by another's weight,
How am I to know my eternal fate?

It has taken forever and yet I'm not there.
I have not received monotony's share,
But rather a piece to which I must abide
Yet within my piece a world inside.

What feelings I have of which no one has heard,
The things I can say without speaking a word.
Why am I also doomed to be
Someone else, a lesser me?