Olivia

To you it makes no sense. To me it is infuriating what little the lazy people of the world do as these things happen day after day after day... 

I was never much of a poet (or a songwriter for that matter) but can't say I didn't try.

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A tear shatters on the floor like glass 

No one cares when you’re this low class 

Water splatters, clear blood against the wall 

Towel tripping is an almost fall 

Small wet feet touch cold tile floor 

Make a way to the bathroom door   

A young abused child with a zombie-like stare 

Out in the hallway in her underwear 

To watch her mother drink and drink 

Her forehead cracks against the bathroom sink   

A drop of hate slides to the ground 

And splinters there with little sound 

The tension screams inside the hush 

These tiny bones aren’t hard to crush 

Anger rages out and in 

Blood red water escapes her skin   

The shouts commence, Oh Don’t You Dare 

Life and living just aren’t fair 

A childhood thrown off the brink 

The floor is red and her face is pink   

Tired eyes in a dead, blank stare 

Thoughts that we can’t bear to bear 

Eyes that do no more than blink 

So why should someone ever think

That something could be done?

Life

Shifty eyes and faulty knees

Curly hair and maple trees

Polaroids and soccer balls

Bendy flags and laughter falls

Hallway hell and locker codes

Math and homework overloads

For school spirit, not really

Skip last class and pep rally

French class sucks and PE blows

Middle, high school comes and goes

Moving out and moving in

Tissues in the garbage bin

Study hall and stomach flu

Feeling lonely, feeling blue

Meet new people here and there

Learn to sing and what to wear

Nothing changed but age and friends

Memory that never ends

Thinking while dancing gets your thoughts mixed up

Breathe in

Scream out

Don’t you stop

Till the lights go out

One step forward

Two jumps back

It’s hard to reach

And that’s a fact

And if it’s not I’ll

Eat my hat

Devour my shoe

One plus one plus one’s not two

Pillow fight

Blanket war

That’s what sheets and covers

are for

Take a hike

Climb a tree

Keep going up until

you see

Your house from here

Looks like an ant

Climb further

Unless you can’t

Inspire someone

Be inspired

Apply for a job

But don’t get hired

Wear pajamas

to the store

naked feet

on linoleum floor

Write a poem

Sing a song

Invite your friends

To sing along

Think about

Life for awhile

Look back on what you’ve done

And smile

Train of Thought

Woke up on the wrong day at the wrong time in the wrong century

And wondered why they couldn't see me through the wall, but

Realized I should have called her this summer because

Sometimes you just need to see them face to face.

So I slept like that, hair still wet from the shower

Colored lights from the lava lamp flashing against the wall

Thought to myself how weird it all was for everything and

Wishing he would stop with the drugs because he's losing to them.

Stared at the ceiling for an hour thinking about stuff that

Plot bunnies were attacking me with ideas and

The ladybug in the corner flicked on and off with the power

Watching the jaguar and koala climb up the lamppost.

Flipped over onto my side and remembered I couldn't do that but

Knowing me I'm too lazy to follow orders so I break the rules and

Anyway why would I waste my time sleeping when I've got other stuff to do, but

Learning that is like learning a whole new language to me.

Asked myself how I could wake up if I was never asleep anyway

Wondered if I had enough energy to change the song but

The tissue box fell through the crack and I got bored and

Just tired of waking up in the wrong place.

All is Silent

All is silent, all is still

Where is the fighting, where is the war

Streets are empty, no one is there

I must be safe then

 

I walk up to the window

The once still frame shatters

The snipers are watching

A bullet in wood

 

The glass all around me

I stand, small, startled

Not anything moves, still

Frozen in time

 

I run from the window

Far into the room where

My father is standing

Unmoving and pale

 

Frightened and trembling

I stare out the window

The dusty streets empty,

Silent, and still.

Swaying to the Music [[acrostic]]

So many

Wonderful

Attributes to the way

You dance,

I admire you, that

Nothing can distract you, you are

Gone, lost in

The music, as I lose myself in the beautiful

Orbs of light that are your eyes.

This moment is too perfect, your

Hair swishes about you as you spin, and

Everything glows in the soft

Moonlight, as even the moon is envious of your smile. You

Use the grass as a cushion for your feet as you dance about the garden.

So let this moment never end, and

I will always be

Complete.

Welcome.

Congratulations.

You lied and sweet-talked your way through elementary school

And now you are faced with a new challenge—

Middle school.

But don’t worry about it.

It only gets worse from here.

You’ll have to adapt to a completely new environment

And once you have,

They’ll tear it apart.

Make a new one

Called high school

But you don’t need to worry about that yet

So for now, welcome to

Life as it never was before.

Welcome to Hell.