Up, Down, and All Around

My life has ups and downs,
With swings and turns that go all around.
If you ask me what violence has done to me,
I will tell you it makes me feel a lot less FREE.
To me, violence just ain’t right,
If it is causing everyone to FIGHT.
My life has ups and downs,
With swings and turns that go all around.

I am blessed to have the option to choose my own path,
I get to choose when to be sad and when to laugh.
OTHERS sometimes aren’t so lucky;
They think that they don’t have a choice,
So never consider using their voice.
They don’t understand their actions until the deed has been done,
And then they realize their actions weren’t nice or fun.
But by this time they’re simply in too DEEP,
And inklings of violence begin to seep.
I am blessed to have the option to choose my own path,
I get to choose when to be sad and when to laugh.

My life has ups and downs,
With swings and turns that go all around.
I can help make a difference in other people’s lives.
I will help them rise,
Up from their downs and i’ll straighten out the bend
Imagine the message WE could send
WE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Our lives have ups and downs,
With swings and turns that go all around.


Gorzycki Middle School

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