Those dreams are strange,
Weird,
Random,
With people I don't know,
With people that are dead,
With scenarios that make no sense,
With vampires,
With magic,
With flying bikes,
Strange these dreams are,
I wonder why

What is it about you,
That I can't even resist your charm,
I don't think it's your eyes which are as black as the night sky,
I don't think it's your hair which shines brighter than the golden yellow sun,
Is it because your kind?
Is it because your funny?
I don't know,
Maybe it's all of those things,
I will never know
And you'll never know that I liked you,
Because you don't exist,
The perfect boy doesn't exist

Tears,
They fall,
I try to scream,
But no sound escapes,
I try to scream again,
No sound again,
But then again,
Those tears are on the inside,
And so are those screams,
Away from the eyes of the world

I remember lying in bed,
Thoughts rushing through my head,
Increasing my anxiety,
I couldn't sleep,
Every night I woke up at 3am,
And couldn't go back to sleep,
I remember going to my mom's bed,
I layed there next to her,
But she woke up and asked what was wrong,
I said nothing and went back to my room,
Then it happened again the next night,
And this time she asked, "Anxiety?",
I responded, "Yes"
And she lay there with me the whole night talking to me,
So thank you mom,
For always being there

The world is broken,
The world is a mess,
Because we made it that way
- Sabene Rizvi

15, tall, confident, female,
Those are the words one uses to describe me,
People think they know me when  they don’t,
My English teacher called me confident as a compliment,
But that couldn’t be further from the truth,
I am insecure and those insecurities have gotten the beat of me,
But I don’t let them drag me down,
I walk like I run the place because I know I can and one day I will actually run the place,
You call me a cheerful joyous person,
I’m a depressed person,
I smile because I know it can improve someone’s day,
I smile because I know the struggle and I know just seeing a smile form on someone’s face when you arrive,
Makes you feel loved and worthy,
And I want you to know that you are,
And I tell myself that I am too,
It is known that Man’s enemy is man himself,
But I want you too know that you don’t have to be the enemy,
You can be the support, the friend,
As man’s true friend is himself,
As Albus Dumbeldore said,
The happiest man in earth will look into the mirror and see himself exactly as he is.

Poor Kitty, Poor Kitty,
What will she say,
I ended up in the hands of monsters who used me to their selfish gain,

I wondered what I did wrong,
I wonder what people will say about this,
Of course they can’t use the same excuses that are used to dismiss cases of innocent humans,
I’m a cat,
I can’t be dressed inappropriately,

I wonder why did they hurt me,
I wonder why they hurt the boy who tried to save me,
I wonder why my fellow cat was stepped on,
Or why my fellow cat was set on fire,

But alas I can not know,
I can not ask,
Why you ask,
Because I’m a cat and I can’t talk,
I’m voiceless,

Voiceless,
It’s so easy to take advantage of the voiceless,
And I’m not the only animal suffering,
While you read this,
Hundreds have suffered and died,
And hundreds will continue to,

So please sign the petitions and please bring justice to me and my fellow animals,
So that no creature is set on fire, stepped on or taken advantage of again,
So no cruel experiments are done,
My poor elephant sister who the humans so cruelly fed dynamite to,
She died a slow and painful death and so did I.