What Are You Fighting For?

What are you fighting for?

For me

For my dreams

For all the things I feel

And all the things I subtly ignore

For the boy too scared

To leave his house

To the baby girl

Who all but died in vain

For the first fresh

Breathes of innocents

To the shaky last breathes

Of eyes that have seen much

All too much

They say ignorance is bliss

But how so

How so when now your good;

friend lies dead in a street

In a river of blood

When your sister may never be the same

So ask yourself

What are you fighting for?

Is it your mother,

Your father,

Sister,

Brother,

For your hurting friend

Or even just to see;

someone open their eyes again

See I know what I’m fighting for

I’m fighting for me

For my dysfunctional family

My crazy best friend

My little neighborhood

I’m fighting not just for me

But those too young to understand,

Or those who don’t want to understand

For them

For me

This life

Now ask yourself

What are you fighting for?