ChildrenThe children on the playgroundAre pathways to a better placeThose taught to changeRearrange and to better themselves and othersThose who plan, but not too muchThe ones with a dream and creativityChildren are young leadersIn the makingOn the journey called their lives We are mere bystanders in their eyesThey are new canvasesClose to emptyCanvases with curly hair and innocent smilesAs they climb atop the monkey barsLearning how to be rebelsLearning how to be strongNot everything is pure instinctWe are teachersBorn to be To serve a purpose on the ground we trudge uponThe ground and people we never think ofWe are not born horribleWe are taught to be bad peopleMake bad decisionsTaught to swear and hurtWe must teach the fledglings We must point them to their pathsAnd let them walk the bitter roadSometimes
BodaliaShe was the one who dared to do ballet in pouring rain while wearing embellished lace.
MilleniumNovember airAnd foggy liesWind-swept hairAnd crystal eyesRunning downSlick streetsSleeping townIn cotton sheetsStars up highDaisies lowDark blue skyDo I go?Heartbeat fastCracked green glassIt wont lastTime will pass
Remembrance I look at my self in the dusty broken glass of a mirror in the corner of my room. My sodden lips and sodden eyes wretchedly innocent. The blues and browns washed away in the rain of yesterday. What once was. The scaffolding's paint peeling with the heavy beat of water. Like a bass drum in the hands of a toddler. I lay spread on the scraggly carpet in a not befitting room. Leaves a crimson red and decaying brown splayed on an old driveway. A driveway once overflowing in Cadillacs and mini-vans. Soccer moms and laughing teens. Memories so bitter sweet. Nearly tangible on the wilted grass of mind. Roses and bluebells. Spread out in seldom bushels. Moments and hours sitting and remembering. Sitting in remembrance.
BulliedTo stand your ground as the wind pushes pastAnd stare death in the eyeAs you trudge ahead on the gravel and thornsBlack roses and flames aheadOn the road of decay and tearsShadows of the beaten expelled to the outer fields of the road's valleySouls of odd and the irregular roamingSearching for their innocenceTo walk through a wall of blood and blood curdling screams To listen to voices accuse youBeat you and watch your tears stream downAs if in that is satisfactionAs if in that is the feeling of acceptanceThat is the road of a man being hurtOf a man achingYou are not accepted, nor do you need to beTo feel your heart beatTo hear yourself breatheTo be yourselfYou have spoken, and you will be heardYou are importantYou may speak nowYou will not be bullied, nor will anyone else.
Golden heart of falling StarsI'd run around our yard at nightAnd try to fish for starsI'd jump up on chairs and tree trunksTrailed my hands through the dark skyI would stay up all nightWaiting for a star to fallWhen one did I'd ask my dad if he could see it'Cause he was tallHe'd laugh and twirl me round and roundThen said it's in my heartCoursing through my veinsThat would always make me smileThen he'd say that even star dust is twinkling in my eyesI'd run back to my room and trace my heart across my chestTrace my veins through out my bodyI went to school the next week Told all the kids my storyTold them that we're made of stars,and stars are in our heartThey laughed and laughed'Till the teacher made them stopI stomped through our front door later in the dayOnce the school doors had shut, and the teachers were asleep in their classroomsI ripped all my paintings downMy paintings of stars twinkling in my eyesOf stars falling in my heartNow as an adult I still paint those starsThe stars
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