Ms. Roman, 6th Grade
In a world of
blob-blab
In the continent of
goob-glab
In the country of
doob-daab
In the town of
ooga-booga
There is “madness”
But that is what
they see
They dream of liberating us
what we see is culture,
music,
freedom,
happiness
but this is our
town
but this is our
country
but this
is our world
and we live here
too
Say to myself
the fears
the say-nos,
the boredom
that there are many ways to change your life
How I should’ve rode
Steel Vengeance earlier
How I should have found
My joy in space
How I should have
figured out sports stats,
earlier, earlier…
Now I stand two years forward
Knowing I could have never found
my joys
and now how happy I am that
I found them
But then it comes back
back, to haunt me
earlier, earlier
but I remember
how it changed my life
Say to the girl who isn’t yet 12 years old
Say to the girl with a sister who screams
Say to the girl who has nothing to hold
Say to the girl with fear in her dreams
Say to the girl who thinks grades equal life
that the monster in the closet and
the man in the moon will haunt her
Say to her that she isn’t forgotten,
tell her that while there’s still more
to lose, there’s still more to gain
tell her that two halves can still be whole
and that sleeping isn’t danger
and smiles don’t have to be fake.
You’ll be OK.
Because at the end of the day,
even though night will come again,
you’ll be OK.
So say to the girl,
you’ll be OK.
Ms. Smallwood, 6th Grade
Say to the…
5 year old me
I am a boy
from Chicago
and I love basketball
I have a little
brother that I can’t describe except
he took the way I look
Some advice I wish I gave
drink more milk and I could be 5’8″
but back to my younger self
I wouldn’t do anything different
This is me,
and I wouldn’t change it
Past me, enjoy it
the fun, the freedom, the past
Enjoy it while it lasts
Your sister is clumsy and weird
but you love her and so does she
Love the time with your grandpa
The joy, the laughs, the past
Enjoy it while is lasts
Enjoy it because some things
don’t last
Have fun with life
have fun with the
hair, the clothes, the past
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Say to the 10 year old
Say that glory is for the fool
That true power is knowledge
That when all else fails, knowledge
is what brought things to the point
they are. When glory is achieved
it lasts only a fleeting moment
Then it is gone. The time of
glory’s importance has long gone.
The importance of knowledge is
far too great to comprehend.