Spirit
Spirit is what makes a school, a sport, mascot, team
It drives us in our American dream
It’s behind trying to fail
Failing to try
Wondering why you had to keep try-ing
It keeps us singing, laughing, praying, saying
It’s what keeps our grace so Amazing
It moves through pens, paint, stone, and clay
Infiltrate contaminating
Art life animating
Life art imitating
From life insulating
I like saying I’m Dominican, Puerto Rican, maybe Cubano
Pero en mi casa espanol no es mi lengua hablado
Half the time I’m Ethiopian, Nigerian, from the mother land
But sometimes it’s hard to understand
When you ask someone what they are it’s not asking where their people are from
Spirit sometimes comes from deeper than your blood
Hi, I’m an 18 year old male who likes to take long walks on the beach
Miles and miles beyond my nearsighted reach
So I use my pen to check myself
To commemorate the past
Pin down ideas too slippery to grasp
I define myself and you to
Because through me I define you
So that must be what spirit is
A definition or a cause
It defies such things as genetics or universal laws
Spirit is what makes me, me
It makes you, you
It makes Cardinal red and all those bears blue
I have spirit yes I do
I have spirit, how bout you?
you have spirit, yes you do
but to me school spirit
is more of a task
to show my true colors
past those on the color scheme
to yell: go team go
is rarely heard by me
school spirit is overrated
go team go
only until you move on
my mascot sure i do respect
but where is the mascot of the spirit of love?
of happiness? of memories?
i hope i find those mascots
and it is true that i am defined through you
but how about those prejudices, the media
am i not defined through you with twists
from the twisted world we live in today?
