Rhyme-ku

A distant breeze
heard, not felt
as you, Inside, are warm.
full stomachs sing
nearby, sleeping through the storm

I remember a dream, from a month ago, rather vivid
where nothing from this year was real
and it's screaming with vibes of that lunchroom you can feel 'em
the suggestion was altogether insipid
that somehow, someone, could take away what has been
and replace it with the would-have-been
which might have, honestly, been the end of me as Cameron

examine this, my like-minded friends, and be the judge of my logic
it was middle school, public school, daily evolving my neurotic
tendencies to the point where it was just too much to handle,
well. That is when the city called me up and said "son,
you've got a helluva heavy mantle there. You're so awkward
around boys, girls, teachers, and family alike that some would
say you've gone NUTS! A loser! But i'll tell ya what" and he stops at this point
so he can light a cigar that must've weighed half a ton

"I heard you've got some talent with numbers and shapes, and an appetite for big BUTTS"
We've got all a' dis up here in New York, where if you don't like someone you can say "fuck you"
and move on! A kid's free to be whatever he wants to be; geek, goth, jock, rock, hippie, emo, or yuppie
we'll give you all these options and all you'll give in return (at this he leans close) is your puppy
I made the deal, my parents shifted gears, and soon enough we had ourselves a brand new home -
then the stock market collapsed
so we had a shitload of debt and a lotta domestic strife and the dream exploded into a giant fireball and everybody DIED!

except for me. You know why? Because I've got something that you can never have unless you've walked a mile in my shoes - resilience

it's the strength to go on when your parents hate you, your friends avoid you, and every girl you walk past thinks that you're nothing more than a hunchbacked freak. And this strength comes from the confidence that no matter where you came from, no matter where you are now, and no matter how stupid the future looks; you are going to eventually DOMINATE.

This is not a skill that you can just pick up and read about, no - you're gonna have to survive relatives dying (uh-huh) paychecks bouncing (that's right) your parents divorcing and maybe even (oh no) getting arrested and going to jail. What's gonna separate YOU from the crowd is the ability to rebuild a relationship you thought was done for. The will to keep working at a skill that you have a passion for even when everyone around you is saying "you will FAIL." Most importantly, ladies and gentlemen, resilience is the ability to see reasons behind everything that goes WRONG in your life - and to either change them or learn to live with them.

And in the end, it helps you out to be a little selfish