Let's run away
*Just you and I
Let's get away
No more lies
Let's go away
To a soft sweet place
Let walk away
We won't run the race.
Let's run away
from the hurt and the sorrow
Let us hold hands
And choose our tomorrow

Knowledge is misused
Has it always been?
Or is it out generation
Who have made a mistake again?
More than a mistake, I must say
We have made many before
It is not the first or last
Of mistakes, there will be more.
Knowledge used to be treasured
To figure the wonders of life
But now, it is only used badly
To stab someone with  knife
Knowledge has one use these days
And it is true to worsen
Knowledge is now a weapon
To beat another person
*When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. -Albert Einstein

This one's for the 20 kids
Now all dead, god forbid
For the parents who now cry
Who always ask themselves, "why?"
For those teachers killed on the job
Their entire city mourns and sobs
For all the people who took a fall
I support you and I bless you all.

*To the familes of  Charlotte Bacon, Daniel Barden, Rachel Davino, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Ana M. Marquez-Greene, Dylan Hockley, Dawn Hochsprung, Madeleine F. Hsu, Catherine V. Hubbard, Chase Kowalski, Jesse Lewis, James Mattioli, Grace McDonnell, Anne Marie  Murphy, Emilie Parker,  Jack Pinto, Noah Pozner, Caroline Previdi, Jessica Rekos, Avielle Richman, Lauren Rousseau, Mary Sherlach, Victoria Soto, Benjamin Wheeler, and Allison N. Wyatt.

I shouldn't be loved
I don't deserve it
I deserve nothing but pain and misery
She should rich and famous
She should be happy
But she has me
I am holding her back
I am a failure
Why do I fail at everything?
Every thing I touch
Every thing I do
Is a failure
And I don't know why.
But I know
I shouldn't be here.
I don't deserve it.

What is the
Universe?
Stars, Planets?
Sun's, Moons?
Space ships blast off
trying to figure out
what exactly is out there
beyond the eyes of
Humans.
Beyond the eyes
Of Earth.
They toy with planets
and send information
but-
They spend so much time
On other planets
Rather than thinking
about our Dying Earth.
Perhaps,
some things
should be left
Unknown.

Footsteps
pounding, running
loud
I can hear them
desperate
for freedom
running away
from pain
Footsteps
Flying
faster then the wind
Footsteps
Taken one at a time
leads to happiness
to love
to the future
which binds us all

I don't want your pity
I'm not ashamed
I'll walk the earth
Just the same
I will not sag my shoulder's
I will not hang my head
You won't bring me down
I don't regret what i said
I don't want your pity
I don't care what's allowed
I don't care what you think
I'm strong and I'm proud

Our minds?
Underdeveloped.
Our common sense?
Nonexistent.
Our emotions?
Regnant.
Our hearts?
Easily broken.
We are the Teenagers.
We are considered,
Stupid
Emotional
And weak.
Yet if we fail as a teenager,
Our lives will be nothing
We will not attend college,
or get a degree
or get a job
or acquire a steady income
We are young
We are hostile
But most of all,
We are scared.
Failure means oblivion
Free all the teens.
Before we crash and burn.
And you will be the driver who crashes us
And you will be the person who lights us aflame
Free all the teens.
Please.

Here I stand, just being me.
Not what i'm supposed to be
Just living life to the fullest now
Without all that shame always bringing me down
You think that i'm afraid
Well i'm coming back for more
I'm a fighter. I survived
I am Whitney;
Hear me roar.

Did it not happen?
Did I simply forget the day when we fought?
When you said you played me?
When you said it was over?
No, I didn't.
I will never forget.
That was the day I cried for you.
Was it easy lying?
To an innocent girl who you knew was innocent?
To a girl who loved and trusted so easily?
But I don't anymore
Not since they day you lied to me
That was the day I cried for you.
But no more tears will be shed
My love is too valuable to be given to someone so insignificant
My trust and love are no longer given:
They are earned.
Some might say I am young
My heart says differently.
I was not to young that day when you walked away
When you said it was over
When it all fell apart
That was the day I cried for you
This is the day I stop.

I have a secret
I am a dreamer
I am the person with dreams
I am a believer
I am a fighter
I am stronger then i seem
I rest my head
every night
After a day of laughter
And await my dreams
Of fairy tales
And happily ever afters
And i can almost feel
The sweet spring air
Whipping across my face
delicate dew drops
on blades of grass
Seem to dance with breathtaking grace
And after a night
of magic and wonder
i am forced to awake
Reality is a staircase
leading to nowhere
but that's a risk I'm willing to take

I wish I were pretty
with long flowing hair
I wish I were stunning
To make them stare
I wish I were beautiful
With intent hazel eyes
I wish for a perfect body
And a perfect size
I wish that he loved me
That he kissed me all day
Sorry, I was naming things
That I can never change

Things were so simple
A lifetime ago
You spoke what you felt
You weren't always so low

Loving and caring
And kindness you showed
The air filled with laughter
A lifetime ago

A lifetime ago
You were happy when you smiled
It wasn't to mask
How you were bitter and vile

Oh i want to go back
I don't want to grow
The world was so peaceful
A lifetime ago



*It seems.

To think
Or not to think
That is the question
When I think
All the bad things hit me
The screaming
"Your ugly"
The verbal punches
I have to turn away from the mirror
Because they turned me against myself
When I do not think
I shut everyone out
No one can penetrate my walls
Built of all the insults
over the years
When I think
People can help me
When I don't think
People can't
Which is worse?
I ask you...

I can't be mad at you for loving her
Who wouldn't?
The beauty,
The brains
The grace
Everything I'm not.
I can't be mad at you for loving her
Everyone does
Her humor
Her charm
Her wit
Everything I'm without
I can't be mad at you for loving her
She's basically perfect
Her hair
Her clothes
Her smile
Everything about me that's ugly
I can't be mad at you for loving her
No, I'm not
I'm mad because you don't love me
I'm mad because I'm not her.

I'm her
That Girl
Who reads in the hallways
Who writes short stories
Who ducks her head in the halls
Who's scared of confrontation
That Girl
I'm her
I avoid love
In an attempt to save myself
It doesn't work.
I avoid trust
In attempt to help myself
It doesn't work.
That Girl
It's me
But I'm putting a whole new meaning
to That Girl
That Girl is brave
That Girl is smart
That Girl is beautiful
And somebody loves That Girl
I just have to find out why


*We are all That Girl.

Since when is it ok
For one person to be more
important then
another?
Since when is it ok
that we live in a world
where the human race
refuses to help
each other?
And tell me,
Since when is it ok
that when one person hurts
Another laughs
and when a million people
are hurt
no one cares.

Answer: *It Isn't

Fool me once
Shame on you
Fool me twice
Run.

3 Minutes
no response
No worries
3 hours
No response
Worries
3 days
No response
heartache
3 weeks
No response
tears
3 months
No response
depression
3 years
no word from him
No worries
No heartache
No tears
No depression
Just regret
Another guy
3 minutes:
No response
Don't care.

Make it
or
Break it
Lose it
or
Take it
Hate it
or
love it
But I'm all above it.

-Make your own Choices.

You are one year older
One year stronger
One year wiser
One year kinder
One year sweeter
I know in the years to come
You will become these things again
Until you are as
Strong, wise, kind and and sweet
as a person can ever be
So why do I still worry about you
My dear sister,

Try to Remember
When your feeling blue
The sun starts a new day
And a new you.