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Light and Dark

Light and Dark

Which is in your heart

Which one are you?

Find your faith

Show your growth

Listen to your father

Listen to your mother

Follow each other

Work together

Share your feelings

Share your thoughts

Throw away your stress

The light gives comfort

In the darkness of night

Are you good or bad?

Happy or sad?

Are you alone?

Were you abandoned?

Can you stand firm?

You’re the future

So tell your elders

That you can be

Respect what they

Have to tell you

If you don’t respect

You will dig

The deepest hole

Dark is light

God is Everything

Out of the foreground—the symbol of nature and pride

All things natural, nature is life

God is nature, nature is God

God is freedom, freedom is God

God is life, life is God

Everything, everywhere

Where there is life, there is God

God is everything

God created everything including you

God is our life, for we shall devote him our lives

We shall devote him every life

Every life in the world for God

Is the world

God created everything from life to technology

From water to earth, from top to bottom

From east to west, from midday to midnight

God is everything, from the sky to the core

God is caring, God is respect, God…is…truth

God…is…everything

God is the sun, God is the moon, he is the planets

He is the stars

God…is the universe

God…is…everything

Family and Friends

You know that respect shows many things: responsibility,

Respectfulness, regard, reliability, reward, but most of all

Is royalty. Respect shows. Some disrespectful people don’t

Know that. Her hand was as smooth as a baby’s bottom.

Her shirt was as cool as a summer breeze.

Her hand is like a silver bridge.

For respect and love brother and sister

Join hands to show some love for each other

To express their feelings and put their differences

Aside.

All You See and What I See

What do you see?

All you see

Is a 5’0”

African-American

With glasses.

If that’s all

You can tell me

Then I’ll tell you

What I see.

I see a nice

Caring, loving boy.

I see an intelligent

Smart person.

I see a funny

Sporty person.

I am my own

Future light.

Now tell me

One more time,

Tell me what

You see.

The Way Things Change

The way things change all I see all I see

is rhyme like a clock that ticks day through day

time flies when you’re having fun day by day

it goes by so fast you don’t have time to think

about what you’re doing when you’re older.

You’ll want to cherish these moments so live

life while you can.

Change Play

Change plays a game

With dust and wood.

Change is an ingredient

Of us.

Change can grind us

Into dust or change can

Warm your pride of

God that made life.

Change can grind your bones

To dust, but one cannot

Turn to dust.

His name is God and he is

No fraud. He does not fuss

Like us. He is the King of

Heaven except us.    ( or accept?)

He controls air, water and

Light. You may think

It’s not fair but it is.

But alas he can take us

Away to his light, that’s

A symbol for someone to come

To God, to be another piece of Heaven.

In Front of Me I See

In front of me I see

a beautiful baby

girl, Andrea.

In front of me I see

a baby girl in

spotlight.

If I could only

imagine what she

thinks, sees, or wonders.

Does she wonder?

Does she dream?

Does she wonder why?

Does she feel what I feel?

I have so many questions

to ask.

Way to Where???

There are five futures walking.

Walking backwards or forwards

in or out

why does

it matter

I guess it’s important.

Well I know it is. Failure

is what the first one is there are

4 left.

One is me. Now

there’s

two. My friends are still walking

opening up. I stopped it was

not me it was the steps I was taking.

My friends are back to

crawling. Will we

make it or are our footsteps too

big or are they too small. I

wasn’t one of them but now I am.

I am walking, but to where.

Filled with Respect

Respect is a quiet click of a camera

This picture captures a thousand words

Words of trust and love

That shines through the eyes

The eyes of two people

But loneliness and discomfort

With eyes that stare pierce

They lie behind backs of

Disrespect

Take the hands of the helpless

Guide them and help them

Be unlike the others who stand selfish

Take someone and hold them

Because with respect we step forward

We raise each other