What is love?
Does is come from above,
Someone tell me,
Someone help me,
I had love once,
Do I only get it once,
I ruined it all,
I feel like I’ve taken a fall,
He will forever hate me,
Never again date me,
I’d give anything for love,
I don’t just want a shove!

Right now I feel so alone,
I feel like I have been disowned,
I have no one to hug,
No one to bug,
I try to plead,
But deep down I just want to bleed and bleed,
I sit here on my bunk,
I feel like a flunk,
I look into the dark,
I wish I could just run through the park,
I cry my eyes out,
While I sit here and pout,
I feel all this pain,
Flowing through my veins,
I just want to get out of this place,
So I can have my own space.

All the hatred in your eyes,
You be ruining people’s lives,
You don’t care about what other people feel or say,
You just want them to go away,
You lash out because your afraid,
Afraid to be betrayed,
You walk around with your head to the ground,
You be buying things by the pound,
You’ve been through so much,
You could use just the right touch,
I sit and watch you cry your eyes out at night,
I watch you try to act fine in all, despite,
You want to know who this person is,
This person loves kids,
This person is me,
I just want to die and be free!

Why does everyone I care about got to die young,

There lives just get hung,

Deon killed himself,

Bet you right now he can’t live with himself,

Cameron drowned in Alkai Beach,

His dreams will never be reached,

Joey got shot,

Made it to the hospital was going to survive I thought,

Uncle Scott had a heart attack,

Without him I don’t feel in tack,

Aunty Pam got AIDS,

That horrible disease that needs to be re paid,

Over these passed years,

All these deaths just brought tears.

If only you could comprehend how hard life is for me,
I know I’m only a little boy, but my world I want to see,
Things are always changing right before my eyes,
But don’t you see I can’t change the direction of the tide?

It’s a different world I see, with my big brown eyes;
They call it autism, and they think it’s my demise.
What I’d like for them to know
Is that life is really about surprise.
Everyday is something different–Something very new;
A phone, a clock, no a watch. I mean a shoe.
Sometimes, I have a hard time expressing what I want.
And changing my mind, well… I do that a lot.

I have a hard time talking to people; please don’t think I’m rude.
But sometimes my words don’t work and I hit instead.
Now I really blew it, and no one wants to be my friend.
Some people are trying to find a cure for my autism right now as I speak.
But why do I need to be cured?
There is nothing wrong with me.

Please do not heal me, I’m not sick;
And instead of fixing me, enjoy my creativity.
My autism makes me who I am and sets me far apart.
But it only brings me closer to my family’s heart.

Autism is not something you should accept– It’s something to embrace;
For life with me is full of wonder and constant change.
I break up the monotony of daily life.
And although I don’t mean to, I sometimes cause some strife.

Autism changed me from all others except my kind.
And it has succeeded in showing the entire world,
That love and autism bind.