All I Ask by Elisa Santiago
This is me
A simple line
Said a thousand times.
But...its meaning is powerful
It means love me, hate me, like me, leave me
But accept me for who I am
Because I will never be one of them
Accept that I will never be a cross-country star
Accept that I will never be the lead in the musical
Accept that I am not the karate kid
Or the one who turns to lawless acts to get recognized in your eyes.
But I am the Quiet one
Sitting in the corner
Silently screaming out for the slightest sign
The fainteset assurance
That you see me
That you care about me
That I matter to you
This
Is all I ask.
I pick Love by Jessica Lobdell
Converse
skinny jeans
cropped hair
fooball teams
I pick love
Whatever that means
Wanna lie and hide your face
find someone better to take your place
and now that I'm happier with him
you can be alone with your sin
So the choice was hard, but my answer is clear
I choose the man in the skinny jeans
And walking had in hand we show the word no fear.
Spencer Spring
Kiss me like you mean it
say goodbye with feeling
love me like you've seen it
in those cheesy romance films.
Touch me with your words
Tell me with your fingers
Show me all the things I missed
While you were gone with your
Mistress.
Yes I know your secret
I've known until the end
But listen very closely
My broken heart will mend
I forgive all the lies
All the agony and tears
I've said hello to goodbye
Any welcomed the shattered years.
Have fun with your lover
I know that you don't love her
Spencer Spring
Its not okay to be
gay
black
a Mexican with a job
Its not okay to be different, poor, slow-
because you`re a classified
“failure”
A categorized
“outcast”
There are people hating,
discriminating,
not appreciating,
what we bring to the world
The Fear of being yourself
engulfs you,
it wraps around our minds
and breaks us down.
So take it down!
-the walls of society
The wall we call
our parents
our neighbors
our so called ”friends”
We risk it all to fit in, to be popular.
Screw popularity-- practice ORIGINALITY!
Emily Phipps
FINAL GOODBYE
The final beat, the final drum
I never got to say goodby
When he had to die.
I loved him with all my heart
It’s going to be hard to let down my guard
I lost a big part of me
I want him to see
I want him to breathe
But he had to flee
Come back to me
Come back to us grandpa
We will put up the fight
We won’t let you out of our sight
We have all the trust in God
Lord give me strength
For all the pain I have
Just come back to us
Your angel will set you free
Your soul can finally flee
I hope you hear when I shed a tear
you will be missed
I never forget the kiss
You gave me on the day I came
We know you had to go, but we want you to know
You will always be with us
In our hearts with your guide by our side.
Carissa Colangelo
I look upon a sea of flowers, all dull and colorless with fear
Until I awaken my eyes full of life and light,
Where I wonder no more, my confusion is gone.
The Gods have sent me this message,
Even though they know the wrong I am living
Why have they believed in my passoin?
They know it's the only one I've lived for, the one that needed sacrificed
My position lies in theat never-ending field, where I am given a heart,
A soul, that has made me my own, I am that very person who protects,
I am that very person who seeks, no one can separate my domain and I
In which then the tradition breaks.
