Thursday, February 6, 2014

The Poem

I, You, We

You wanna change the future
Then you have to change who you are first
You can't change the future unless you change who you are
If you don't change who you are,
Then don’t expect the future to change for you.
Life will repeat its pattern on you
And you will make the same mistakes
If you don’t change who you are.

I wanna change the future
Then I have to change who I am first
I can't change the future unless I change who I am
If I don't change who I am,
Then I can’t expect the future to change for me.
Life will repeat its pattern on me
And I will make the same mistakes
If I don’t change who I am.

I want the future to be better
But I concoct  images of the future being something my past could never be
I try to relive my past through my future
The circumstances recreate themselves and I make the same mistakes I made in my past
Maybe if I stop trying to do it on my own

I will change
You will change

Because you can't change your future until you change who you are
Because I can’t change my future until I change who I am

You can’t change my future until you change who you are
I can’t change your future until you change who you are

So I wanna Change
Do You wanna Change

We can change Change our future
If we change who we are

-Priscilla Velez-