and Me

Once upon a time there was someone like you and me. We went to school and did what we were told. We always hold ourselves together and try hard to do our best.

But we know they don't really understand people like us.

Why we want the things we do, why we are so angry so much.

People like us see through you.

But we know it doesn't matter to you.

People like us feel pain and sadness and longing--just like you do. But people like us we're hopeful through it all. We have a faith in the world that doesn't seem to make sense given all the pain we've seen.

People like you and me are always going to feel like we don't fit in, except amongst people like us.

People like us are always going to want something more.

 People like you and me are going to have to fight all the time and we're going to be tired.
But people like you and me will always have fire. And people like you and me, when we have nothing, have each other.

People like you and me, we're going to be Okay.
People like you and me are Okay.



For my friends Yun Shan and Vanessa N.