for your reading pleasure

i wrote this during class today...after the professor said that people who stand alone on their values don't last.

i straight up looked at him and said, "you'd be surprised how many do."

and then i wrote this:

try to last when no one's on your side
on your own
without those people you thought
would ALWAYS be there.
stand up there all alone
on a premise
so afraid
but unflailing
or so it seems.
because you're willing
to go to the ends of the earth
for what you think and feel is right.
and while you're not truly alone
you feel like no one understands.
eventually, you're rewarded
for sticking it out.
OUTPLAY.
OUTLAST.
if you can't convince them, CONFUSE THEM.