If then, And then (slam poetry)

If when, and then a set of words used to push us on. Words to bring us hope on the tight rope we need to cope.

These words are a cruel game of blocks set up for us by those who are older than us the blocks set up for us by those "who know best", at least that's what we're told.

If when we submit ourselves we can achieve the goals our ancestors before us, had already accomplished, the tower already built with the blood and sweat of the ones who suffered most and then we can be considered mature. If it wasn't the actions we devote ourselves to then the time we walked the earth. If when we stop looking for the protection in our mothers we can finally feel as if the ups are flying and the downs are plummeting into depression as if it weren't a problem already.

We find ways to hurt ourselves, breaking the still healing self we cling to whilst tying bandages around the broken hearts of others as if school was more important then our sanity does tears break the illusion of being an adult and then our idea of maturity finally falls exposing the child within a broken shell of a human