Category: 08th

Home

If home is where the heart is,
I don’t think I live here.
If home is where the heart is I’m far, far away,

If home is where the heart is,
I don’t think I belong here.
With my heart so far gone,
And being so different in comparison,

If home is where the heart is,
I think I need to change.
There’s so many things I haven’t done.
I’ve never lived on my own, or been to Pride.

Mother I’m telling you,
If home is where the heart is,
Home is not here,
And I don’t think this has been home,
Not in a very long time at least.

C.D. Fulkes Middle School

8

Time

Time is weird, especially as a student.
You either have too much, or not enough.
You’re either bored, or you’re stressed.
It’s either you’re hanging upside down from the furniture scrolling through social media,
Or you’re cramped over yourself as you try to finish that last assignment at 2:00 AM.
It almost seems like there is no in between,
There is no ‘Just in Time’.
At least not anymore,

C.D. Fulkes Middle School

8

Long Walk

Walking down to the old street,
Hearing voices, smelling scents of fall.
Winter will be here soon.
Birds flying across the sky,
I really want to rise up high.

Down there,
there’s houses painted in red,
Down there,
Who will be led?
Flowers growing wildly,
Like the end of the dryly,
Dryly summer.

When or where have I came to?
That little girl holding balloons says so too.
“It’s beautiful,”
I lowered my head,
“What is?”
And she takes the lead,
to the end of the corner,
opened the gate door,
to a place with full of flowers.
“These, oh, and the world.”

Back again on this street,
Birds chirping around the old trees.
Feels familiar,
End of another fall,
winter, and spring

Gorzycki Middle School

8

Makeup

Makeup

Makeup covers up the imperfections

But sometimes that is not enough

Makeup can make you look beautiful ,

But it will never help you find true love

Scars will show
Eyes will stare

Makeup helps but scars always stay there..

C.D. Fulkes Middle School

8

I love you

Have you ever felt love? Like you were just so happy to see that one person? When you feel like everything is just so right, but then..one day everything changes. They refuse to speak to you and you are left feeling useless as if everything is your fault and you are so clueless as of what you did wrong. The moment you hear “I gave up on you” your heart stops. You couldn’t believe it you try to win them back but all you can say is “I love you” because in your heart all you can feel is the hurt you see that everyone is happy but you and all you can remember is them telling you “I will never let you go, I love you so much we will be together forever” you sit there and you stare and you cry and cry every tear that comes down is a memory that had you in love. The moment you realize it was never you that lacked in love it was them they failed to say I love you they failed to be by your side and have your back and just know I love you is when you feel it and you mean it. I love you is no just words those words have the power to make you or break you.

C.D. Fulkes Middle School

8

The way life goes

Everyday, you wake up, thinking
About what will you do.
Your mood could be bright,
Or you could a little feel rude.
Thinking about past mistakes,
And how you will erase.
Holding no regrets, and holding down your crest.
Thinking about the day, as you stare into the rays.

C.D. Fulkes Middle School

8

broken heart

Love what is love?
Is love happiness?
Is love sadness?
This is love
Love is something that you can’t take away
Love is love once you it there’s no letting letting go
People sometimes think that kids and teens don’t know what love is.
Love is like a rose once the last petal falls it’s no longer there.
Love is more like what’s the point of loving if you know it’s not going to last?
Some people in this world honestly don’t know what love is.
Some people confuse love with lust.
So what is love?
What is the point of love?
Cheating is not a sign of love hitting someone is not a sign of love.
So why do people do it?
Why do people this it’s okay to hurt someone?
I guess that’s something that you will have to ask them.

C.D. Fulkes middle school

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