tenure, kids or suicide

Love won‘t bring me peace of mind

For what I seek, I’ll never find

I get so tired, I can‘t just fight it all the time

That‘s not a life

I‘m not alive

Just barely there

I do not cry

I only stare

And how they‘ll find these words below

They’ll never say, I‘ll never know

And by the time I‘m thirty five

It‘s tenure, kids or suicide

I will not live until I die

It‘s tenure, kids or you decide

It‘s climate change or daddy‘s home

Or someone‘s gonna pay

If I can‘t elect your president

I‘ll overcome his stay

And the elders think I‘m way too brash

It‘s family feud or suicide

It‘s social death or suicide

It‘s climate change or suicide

It‘s nothing else but suicide

The thought of which is vain

Unless tomorrow pulls me back

I‘ll write a sonnet for today