A needle and a vein that’s all he needs
A entry point that always bleeds
A fiery hell that that supersedes me
A life given with no second chances
Always taking defensive stances
Just to make the pain go away
So insecure and unsure pulled down the wrong path
A promising future yanke...
Pain so deep I’ll never let you see
Since I’ve locked it away and hidden the key
If I ever really shared it
I know you wouldn’t look at me the same way I swear it
I seen things a child shouldn’t have to see
The house that stands across the street now empty
With its peeled off paint a...
I’ve never given running much thought
I don’t know why I like it so much
Perhaps it’s feeling of a beating heart
Reminding me I’m still alive for another day
The fresh air blowing my hair and voices all away
Maybe the breaking of metal chains around me
as my breathing speeds up. Le...
It’s hard to miss something you’ve never had
But it goes along with not having a dad
I’ve lost all respect
But what can a person except when he was never there
As a child I thought it was unfair and misunderstood
I’d wonder what I did wrong to make him leave
Because he never was a pa...
We are not the same band we were last year
We have lost a director, but gained another
We have lost members, but leave them in the past. Because their hearts weren’t in it like
ours are, forever until the end we are musicians.
We are the new high school band
Just step aside and let us do ...
You never know how strong you are until
Being strong is your only choice
-Unknown
Life will always be a game so I have learned
It’s simple and true
So just sit and wonder what’s in it for you
Trying to figure out how to play the game
Sometimes it’s a build and break
That oft...
I’ve never been good with goodbyes
I hate to see people leave
Its just way too hard
Knowing they won’t be there anymore
Memories to comfort me in the night
I guess this is an end to one chapter
And a beginning of a new
But I just remember that goodbye will
Never be forever...its j...
The time has finally come to say goodbye
It’s our time to perform the last concert for them
It’s our time to let the last note be captured as another memory
It’s our time to share this last moment with them
It’s our time as one band, one family, one heart beat, to make this everything ...
The classroom door opens
I jump and look ……
Could that be him?
A classroom door slams shut
I flinch and look ……
I wonder if that’s him.
I hear footsteps fall down the
School hallways
I catch my breath…….
Could that be him?
Someone standing in the street at night
Loo...
The next few days were measured by the number of chemotherapy sessions Mr. Anderson had instead of hours, or days. We soon fell into routine at the hospital. Our mornings started with an hour of chemotherapy, our afternoons were spent by Mr. Anderson’s bedside while he fell in and out of conscienc...
The drive down to the hospital was excruciatingly long and quiet. Outside the car window everything was covered in a clean, pasty blanket of snow. The trees that once flourished with green leaves now stood bare and life less. Everything was lifeless, dead. I tried to push the word “dead” out of ...
Chapter one
Unexpected Phone Call
My cell phone on my bed side table buzzed violently. I rolled over, and slowly raised myself up on my elbow, rubbed my eyes and fumbled for my phone in the dark. “Crap!” I mumbled to myself as I knocked over the glass of water and heard my glasses land on t...
Mrs. D
MaKayla Claymore
Beloved because she is more than a teacher
Our second mother yes she is
Nurturing each and every one of us, filling us with love and knowledge
Never turning a student away in their darkest hour, their time of need
In her students she believes that we are the future
...
It’s January 23, my seventeenth birthday. By now I thought I would have everything I could ever want. Sure I have everything a normal eighteen year old has, expect that one person. The person that left me and my mother when I was only seven years old, he’s my father. According to my mother she c...
You say that you would never leave
me, abandon me. And when times are
tough you promised me that you would
see me through it. You promised you would
always be there when I needed you the most.
you promised me everything.
God, I feel like you’ve broken that promise
to me. Because in the ...
When you thought I wasn’t looking
I saw the tears in your eyes when
You found out that you had cancer.
When you thought I wasn’t looking
I heard you say “I love you” in the middle
Of the night. And I felt safe in your arms
As you carried me off to bed. Grandpa
Didn’t see it but...
Just six months ago everything seemed fine.
But now my world is crumbling all around me.
Everywhere I turn I hurt someone.
They say they are sorry, but what are they sorry for?
They don’t know what I’m going through.
They don’t know about the pain I’m feeling right now.
I use to be ...
“Look at the man on your right, now look at the man on your left. These are your brothers, sisters, you look out for them and they will look out for you. And those comfortable lives you left behind to protect your country, forget them from here on out everything you know will change, a tie is ...
I’m slowly giving in.
I’m becoming weaker and weaker.
This battle is no longer my own.
Time is slipping away from me.
I’m leaving, and never will I return.
And there’s nothing anyone can do.
I’ve never told you the truth.
But here it goes.
I’m dying.
I’ve been dying for 2 ye...
Numb
“Come on Kayla; come catch me if you can!”
Shane took off for the meadow that was only
a few hundred yards away. His jet black hair
becoming smooth against his head. The sun set
behind his silhouette as he turned to look at me
was like nothing I’ve seen before. He grinned
that...
What marks history through out time?
Is history made when people stand up against
the normal, and stand for what’s right? Is history
made when a war turns into a victory for our
America? Is history when something tragic happens,
something that we can’t forget, something that
becomes a deva...
I am willing to bet that I get the same questions ten times a day. “Why do you write? What do you write about?” “How do you find time?” Because I am known as the writer
of my class.
And until now I just say “because it’s something to do…because I just do.” But
I now know why I ...
I should have…..
Trent, I don’t need you, I don’t love you,
I hate everything in your begin. I wish
I would have never met you. I never want
to see your face again. Go away!
I should have never trusted you. I should
have never said I love you. Because after
four years I realize that...
Today I feel like I’m one mistake from loosing everything.
It keeps me awake every night. I don’t want to end up where
I was before. Only in your arms can I find peace, rest. But
your arms are so far away from me. ...time and time again I fall.
The war stars when the day begins. You need...
Black and white, white and black
That’s what most people prefer to see
when they look at the world. They see
what they want to see and forget the rest.
The simpler their life is the better. Black
and white is what they see.
They fail to realize that there is more than
just black and whit...
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