Category: 07th

Alone?

I looked at the clock, it’s still 12 o’clock
The time seems to freeze
I turn around and face the door where comes a faint knock
The door swings open and in comes light along with a soft breeze
There stands my mother blanket in hand, a quiver in her knees
“Where have you been” I say with a sigh as she walks.
I know where she was but i still ask again with an air of displease.
She ignores the question and plops on my bed and talks.
I lay down my head, not even bothering to listen to the words she breaths.

Christmas eve

It was a cold stormy night, and it started like any other.
There was a freezing blizzard outside, fortunately, we were inside.
The wood on the fireplace was crackling and popping.
It was dark in the house except for the fire and the Christmas tree.
The stockings were hanging just above the brick fireplace, and the presents were nestled safely under the tree.
Everyone in my house was asleep, everyone except for me.
I was sitting in the rocking chair in front of the fireplace, happy as can be eating gingerbread and drinking some eggnog.
Once I was done I went to the kitchen and put some gingerbread. Back o the plate and poured some milk into a cup and I sat them on the nightstand next to the rocking chair. I wasn’t sure if Santa clause was real but I was sure, I was thankful for this house.

The Old Times

Back in the day, there was a lot of pain
in each and every way
Women had fewer rights, the soldiers would always fight at night
they kept on playing that old game
of course, the children were singing there wonderful smiles were gleaming
until they knew what was coming
slavery wasn’t new it had always been there
slaves weren’t even paid a dime
after all that long amount of time
Some people would think nothing of it, and others started throwing a fit
Those who said “let them be free,”
I would always end up dead
Soon guns rumbled marches had begun
people were pleading for slavery to end
so the states thought things must change
they fought through the night and their play was finally ending
Speeches were told embrace was shown
people would say it was a happy ending
but something else was beginning
People picked up their signs and started to march
not on the side where they started
they walked day and night it was unbelievable that they also wanted to gain
women rights

Portugal’s loss

As Portugal desperately put Ronaldo on the field hoping he would tie the game
Morocco played the hardest they had ever played before
the ball went back and forth across the field
one wrong move and the other team would score
Morocco held their defense tight not letting the ball slip through
Portugal kept pressuring and attacking Morocco but they held tight till the end
as the time ended Morocco fans cheered and Portugal fans cried
all hope seemed lost but one thing was forgotten
as a young boy Kylian Mbappé idelized Ronaldo
and was willing to take down Morocco for his hero

I Started with it All

–I Started With it All–

Here I’m stopped and I wonder about things
Riding my bike
Wondering why
Is this just another mystery
It’s so entertaining
I ride past memories with old friends
from the past

They moved, never saw them again
So I…
started over
I read my writing over
And I
just can’t explain

The nostalgia, how insane
I read all of the the kind letters you gave
I looked at all the drawings you drew
I remembered all of you,

Oh, how much fun
we used to have together
But I
just can’t explain

Are you mad at me for something now?
This is so insane

I wrote to you,
hide and seek with them
Played board games with her
sleepover with Jaylen, too

And now you’re all gone
so I wrote a song
Don’t know what else to do
now that you’re gone, It’s true

Oh

I started with it all
Poured my ideas onto pages, oh
But now I’ve read
it all
Now I’m stuck still sitting here, ‘cause I

started with it all
Poured my ideas onto pages, oh
But now that I’ve read
it all
I’m stuck sitting here, memories fading, no

(Music)

Tear at the pages of past
I don’t know if I can last
Feeling like I was abandoned by some friends,
and I know some never said goodbye
And now I sit here, shy
Reading all the letters I was writing, until he stopped writing back
I think that I’m loosing my grip

Are you mad at me for something?
I’ll never forget the past

(Music)

I wrote to you,
hide and seek with them
Played board games with her
sleepover with Jaylen

And now you’re all gone
so I wrote a song
Don’t know what else to do
now that you’re all gone

I started with it all
Poured my ideas onto pages, oh
But now I’ve read
it all
just last year,
Now I’m stuck sitting here

Just be real, just try,
‘cause some of you
never said goodbye

Guess that you just forgot that life
But I
just can’t explain it right

Oh
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

I know three of you got step families
But after that
nothing was the same to me
I
just can’t explain it

Just last year, I’m stuck sitting here
in this neighborhood we played in
Watching time turn tables
And not wanting it to
But while all of you left, I stayed

Here
My bike parked in front of the park
Down the street that changed so much

Feels like I just stayed in the same tree
And let the cold seep slowly in front of me,

I wasn’t ready for that change
Why can’t life stay the same?

(music)

How, just how insane
this is
Just write back,
just text back
Just say something at all

Just throw anything
so I don’t have to sigh and
recall
that

I started with it all…
Poured my ideas on to pages, oh
But now I’ve read
it all
just last year, stuck sitting here for ages… oh

(Music slows to a closing)