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.

 

What we need.

The basic necessities

The things they say you need

Water, which you have to drink

But it can also drown you.

Food, which is for energy,

But it can be poisoned or choke you.

Shelter, for protection from the weather

But you cannot stop the inevitable from happening.

Air, so you can stay alive

But what's the point of living

When you are drowning in your own water

Being poisoned by your own food

Being ruined by your own government

Miles away from your own shelter

That has been destroyed by people

Who breathe the same air as you?

Hide and Seek (poem Version)

I scream.

The blood flows down, down, down

To the floor

The knife twists in the wound

Her screams drown out mine

Trapped

The baby is killed in her womb

She drops to the floor in pain

On her knees

Can't stop screaming

Someone open the door

Let me out of here

Trapped

Blood on the floor

Help

Blood on the floor

Save me

Blood on the floor

Save her

Blood on my knees

I fall, screaming

Banging on the door

Someone let me out

She lays still

I still scream

The door breaks

I run through

The blood

On the floor

On my hands

As I kneel beside her

No more

I scream.

Beyond Repair

--

One

He never had a future

He was only in third grade

Two

She had her whole life before her

Until that fateful day

Three

He could have been somebody

But he threw it all away

Four

Okay we get it now

Stop trying to explain.

But

Going backwards now

Back to number

Three

Why we need strangers

To say who we could be?

And two,

It was only once,

A stupid, stupid thing.

One

No one cared to explain

Until it was too late

So why now

Instead of then?

What's with the delay?

If we had been told sooner

This may not have taken place.

You could have saved our futures...

But, no.

You had to wait.

I am purple

You are blue

I am the sock

And you, the shoe

I am love

And you are hate

I am the lock

And you, the gate

You are the stick

And I the gong

I am right

While you are wrong

You are the seed

And I am the flower

You are the minute

And I, the hour

You are night

While I am day

You are here

While I am away

We are opposites

But can't you see?

Without one, the other

Cannot be.

To unknown

My dear...

I don't know who you are

Or what time you live in

But I do know

That somewhere

Somehow

In some way

Someone loves you.

May be a friend

Or a lover

But just remember

That you are loved.

So take this small piece of advice

Even if you do not use it:

There is someone out there

That you love.

Be them a friend

Or more than that

But whoever they are

Tell them.

Even if you only love them as a friend

Let them know

That you are there for them.

And I promise you

That someday

Someone

In some way

Will return the favor.