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I know who I am,
and yes I have my own story.
I hear people talk about me in the streets,
"babies having babies".
Yes I am a...
Trees, Oceans, Desserts, Mountains.
Summer, Winter, Autumn, and Spring.
Rain, Sun, Snow, Sleet
All combine singing to me.
...
My dear's a deer
what a novel idear
having a deer not a dear
makes me a bit queer
but
what's really quite queer
if you'll...
We start conversing but I become unlink
Coughing, looking at his teeth I must pray.
His damage tiny air sacs really can’...
There is a reason two souls meet. Reaching out for one’s hand to grasp a feeling you have yet to feel. The beast met with...
We live in a world of neglect.
No one cares about love and respect.
Why trust when we’ve been broken?
Why speak just to be...
In life, the most important things in life for us Negroes were freedom, rights and most of to march and sing.
As we tried to...
No I’m not big nor small
The smartest or the wisest
But I am a boy with the dream
How impossible it may seem to you
is...
I was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at the age of two
So this became the life I knew
Pain that cut through...
Snuggled in the midst of the country lies my home
A home that cannot be found in a house, but throughout the dirt roads...
Dive! Dive! Dive! He yelled!
My sea legs gave to the dive
How far will we go?
Words, words, everywhere
Bitch and Lesbian fly through the air
Tormented daily at school by classmates
No one really knows...
“I will not numb you”
But next thing I knew
The needle was in
I couldn’t feel my chin!
A pinch of pain
Where’s the...
A hand to hold, a hug to be given,
I need comfort.
Motivation and praise; spirits are lifted,
I need affection.
Scolding and...
Dear Sophia,
I love you.
Because I love you,
I'll text you in class, although Mr. Roberts isn't very fond of it.
Because I...
You don't know me
You don't see me
You don't hear me
Why am I here
What am I doing
GOING INSANE
trying to find a way
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Wake up
It’s time to go
I opened my eyes.
Wake up!
It is time to go.
Wake UP!
I won’t bother anyone else
I won’t ask...
Little WordsCreate the birdWho flew so highHe touched the sky.And when he tumbledTo the sandNo one heardDespite the birdWho...
Day by day,
Is what they say,
Just get through the day
And you’ll be on your way.
Week by week,
Try not to make it bleak,...
Mixed in a jungle of confused and desperate cubs
where everyone is trying to emulate someone
and looking inwards is rarely...
Effortlessly she molded the bulky clay clump
Effortlessly she sculpted its softer edges.
Effortlessly she defined it with...
Among all final goodbyes,
The walk home is the final wave,
Stepping off the dusty bus,
Starting soon, I’ll always behave:...
I would like to think you could hear me
Even though you are so far away
As I sit here and write my feelings onto this page...
Sadness is addictive:
Sneaks up on you at firstand before you know it, you're
trapped—
caught under it's spell.
Sadness...
Children of Misfortune
There is nowhere safe to hide
In this whirling storm of death.
With our too-big guns and helmets....
A banana that’s green isn’t accessible
A banana that’s ripe has been fully developed
You see here were just like banana’s
Your lips open to unfold foolish words, vulgar and distasteful.
you believe you are a scholar, a philosopher, you are not....
because i love you
i only smile as i watch you tilt back the milk carton
white drops running down your chin
the lips softly...
I think I'd like to walk.
Until my feet fall off at the ankles
and my calves fall off at the knees
and my thighs fall off at...
Life is awesome…
Whether you’re a flower ready to blossom
Or a man waking up to a “good morning!”
Why do we humans ever have...
There is a reason two souls meet. Reaching out for one’s hand to grasp a feeling you have yet to feel. The beast met with...
TAKE THE COVERS OF YOUR EAR
FOR YOU HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR
FOR THE RACISM TO STOP BECAUSE IT IS ALMOST NEAR
FOR THE RACISM...
Roasted, salted
Ducks quacking in delicious pain.
Hot steams rise as cold slabs
merge into forlorn figures waiting
By the...
Feet take you where you want to go,They don't think,
They don't need to know,
Pick up your eyes,
Pick a point on the horizon...
Because I love you, I know you want someone else.And I want you to find them--you'll be happier then.I was an outline and...
This isn't a letter of bitter regret
This isn't a letter I thought I would send
But sitting here now, after it all...
All around me I can see the death and dispair
The gloom that looms over the face
of the common man beyond repair.
As people...
The day I was born
I never would have thought
That one man would have brought, pain into my life.
though,
I'm making it...
The way you look at me on the bus
Like what the hell did i ever do to you
or how they live in the house to clean the dust
I...
Stop telling me to shush
We’re not in the third grade
You’re not my mother
You can’t control what I say
…or maybe you can...
Before I look into the mirror, I hesitate.
In that second, I try to shove down the self diminishing thoughts.
I gradually...
I trusted you,but you betrayed me
I believed that you more than myself
But didn't realise that
I love you with all my heart...
Life is not always a bed of roses,
It is a combination of petals, leaves, and thorns.
Some situations act as a thorn in our...
I sit and I stare into the mirror at my chest.
The scar numbs my body like a blow to the head.
My first day back into the...
Woken up by morning light,
I listen to ocean waves,
Sweet dreams I dreamt last night,
It feels like the perfect day.
I...
When I was 9 years old, I came home from school one day confused by a question a classmate had asked me. "Are you Black?" I...
Live, die, repeat
As the Sun ascends and falls
I grow older - seemlessly, though.
Open the door
And morning explodes....
My sister trundles by.
“Mornin’.”
She turns the faucet,
Turns her hands over and over in the sink,
Glances up at the mirror...
Can somebody call for help...
Get me out of this cell...
I don't belong here...in this insane asylum...
It just amazes me...
Why is college so expensive if every one wants you to get a good
education. One think is certain college is just another...
You say you love me, but
you really don't care.
Everything that you do
is to counter mother.
You won't help with college
'...
In a corner of the nursery,
They play a game called Peek-a-boo.
There’s just one rule: Wait.
The winner gets a sweet...
Same old stories once again
You’re trying to pretend that everything is alright
The fact is nothing is okay
But that’s...
hey you
yes you
my thumbs are just angry, i’m really sorry they have to pound your face
l i k e t h i s .
i mean i’ll...
on the eve of 18 you would think id have changed:you would think id have learned to not skip mealsas i did when i was 14you...
They tell me emotion is weakness.
They say I feel far too much to create something productive.
But I can't control it.
I am...
It’s boring, it’s all boring.
That’s what I tell myself.
Then I remember a quote
from a source I never cared to research...
I used to wake up and wish I were the gleam in the summer sun
radiant, luminous, beaming with life,
always so beautiful to...
My nerves spilled and scatteted on the pavement
I couldn't gather them as I trudged and dragged my exhaustion to class that...
Just do you
Dont care about what other people think of you, whats most important is to just be yourself.
Dont become...
Outside forces create texture
I have texture, not because
I had a choice
It was forced into me
There was an...
Today, we celebrate in thanksgiving;
let us all be thankful that we are living.
We have all made it through another year;...
When you look into my eyes
What does you see?
You see a pitiable disposition
Suffering
Pain
Poverty
From the beginning of...
The sound of rain filled her insides
while she sat and gawked at the sky
a light gray that described her mind
a place that...