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The halls are long and the light is far
Music no one can hear, is in my head
They read me, yet they don't know who they are
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What you see:
symmetry
exposed skin
blinding perfection
small waists, thigh gaps, perfect features.
What it really is:
Beauty comes from with
Not from makeup and chemicals
Beauty if how you are born
You come in cleansed
Loot at me
I'm here just like you
See me
For who I am not for who you want me to be
You see we are alike: you and me
But you wonder...
Is it she or he?
I look at you
If CHANGE were loose change-
Coins found haphazardly in the seat of a sofa or trapped in the crack of the sidewalk
The world would be a different place
Loose change with little value
I will change the neighborhood I live in with kids selling drugs because their parents abandoned them
I was crying all the time,
She couldn’t be there for me.
The children were sad,
My heart was hurting.
There is many bad things in this world,
Racism, Sexism, Disease, Terroism, Hunger, Homelessness,
It seems endless,
Hopeless even,
But what if I could change one thing,
our world today is harsh, we are left with blood and scars. because someone hurt us in our past, and we thought we would never last but here we are standing stronger than the u.s army ready to fight.
I would change everything
Not just for one place
But for all the races
Or else nothing will change
Things would be the same
So we need some change in the world
Tattoos extended across the entire human body a sign of past mistake
an eternal judgment from society.
The thing I would change
Falling in love with her
She loves me for me
She has captured my heart
And she is an amazing person to be with
I hade back all my feeling for
some I love
Armies of one on a shared battlefield
We are soldiers, and soldiers bleed
Blood drips sluggishly from our wounds
As we fight for others' greed
We should work together as a team
Change
who decides what that means?
Websters says it means
to make or become
different
But what is different?
Is different the people who walk down the street
Long live those Chicago nights
When there was pick up games instead of fights
Long live those chicago days
Where the kids lived to play another day
Come home Chicago we all miss you
Have you ever seen a man
That chose blindness
Tore off his eyelids anf gouged out his eyes
Who would close themselves off
From such a beautiful reality
It isn't hyperbole
Don't you scoff
Us verses them mentality
The other guys are always the bad guys
We war to protect our people
Because those other people are dangerous
Those other people war to protect their people
Two beautiful trees stand side by side
Two beautiful trees get the same sun
Two beautiful trees get the same rain
One beautiful tree stands satisfied
The other's roots reach for more
The chamber is cramped and crowded
No face faces another face
For compassion this should be challenged and changed
I was poured from the well of the sky, where even the rain is pure
Trickling from the bucket, where I froze into the mold I was made to be
College is cuffed
to a broken bank.
We starve to stand as equals
in an increasing unequal unity.
To change we must look at the cost
of what we are reaching for as a resident of life.
What are really discussion
hit hard facts that leave you dazed like concussion
how can money come when there's no reproduction
who hand's the dirties like uncles seduction
A thump. Then a scream.
"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING"
I wanna go home.
Help stop human trafficking. Bring them back home.
If my Head is up there
a part of the clouds,
then let the words that come out my Mouth,
be the first droplets of a Storm.
Storms can flood towns,
clearing away rust and rubble
Partying has never been my thing
I've always been the one who was studying
that night I finally went out
all hell broke loose
that was the night I lost you
BANG BANG is all I remember
If heaven sent change,
Cool as raindrop showers,
To water the Earth-
And if I to Him could send
A simple, lone request-
My heart would scream
At highest pitch
To save us from ourselves.
Everyone judges or gets judged though for some it can happen more often than it should, when it does what emotions do they feel, embarrassment, anger, shame and hurt?
I would comb the beaches
of garbage--sca-tter--ed trash,
collect the refuse like we once collected seashells
as the waves crash.
And scrub off the chemicals
What would I change?
People are going around talking about feminism.
Others about the government.
Me? I would like to make aware the value of others.
Some take for granted the people they meet.
She cannot change her opinion of herself,
Can she only support the silenced.
Deep in her throat,
She knows she cannot change her opinion.
The domain of man has changed their opinions,
Of themselves,
No freedom.
You have committed the worst crime in their eyes.
Being different is a sin.
You don't think like them.
Positive happiness is in your every thought.
That isn't allowed around here.
Everywhere I look, I see sadness in the community.
People are barely making it in life, while sharing the love of life.
Paying rent, while only eating pieces of bread, and a glass of kool-aid.
People are starving
Becoming homeless and dying
We got to make a change
By making a committee we can arrange
Jame'ka
I am tired.
I am furious.
And I am amazed at how much ignorance still lives upon this earth.
One day I would like to rise up and change the mindsets of the young adults.
My hair
The color too dark
I would make it glow with blonde
My eyes
A dullish brown
I would make an ice colored kingdom
My nose
To pointy and big
What would you change?
What would I change?
You would change the world to be the palm of your hand
But I would change myself to be the queen of the your hand
You are the first-rate officer
So many things,
Too much pain,
Nothing ever changes,
Until it's addressed,
And plain.
Complications vary,
Theres nothing you can do,
But what if there is,
You ask,
If I could change anything
I would grow claws and teeth
long enough to cut through
the fake, plastic coating
that covers the world
saying one has to be
"If there is one thing you could do to change the world, what would it be?"
The timeless and tired question
Of what one might do if they had this impossible ability,
To change the world.
A tangle web, tangle lives
But take a look deep down inside
Greed consumes, greed takes
It makes my heart ache
Children working for cents
Children starving in the trench
In this world,
Nothing is safe.
Everyone gets hurt,
And the thieves always take.
They take from the rich
Like they take from the poor.
They take and they take
They waddle onto war - a walk to the park?
-With bodies blown and souls sent to the dark?
I say “Young lads, throw down your guns,
And reach up for peace that rests in the sun.”
The world is dying, but change revives
Hate kills the unique and strengthens ignorance
Knowledge changes minds and revitalizes acceptance
Kindness lets a wave of love wash over the massess and changes hearts'
The most powerful of emotions.
The most needed emotion.
I would instil love in every living being.
With love there is no war, with love there is a healthier planet.
What would I change?
Would I leave everything the same?
When you look at this world you see the answer.
People living on the streets fighting for there next meal.
I would have a home
Warm in the winter with a heater by my feet
Instead of a taped tablecloth as a window
Cool in the summer
Instead of filled with heavy, humid air
As human beings we need to know about our futureI am a 14 about to be 15 year old student who cares about the earthPeople need to realize that we are killing the world slowlyThe End Of The World is coming soonI know it is,The sad part about knowin
What is change anyway?
The shift of one thing to a next.
The new beginning we are all looking for.
The hope for something different.
Our belief that something great is to come
If I could do anything,
I swear i'd have the world changing.
i'd make everyone's lives better,
create world peace and end hunger.
Cure cancer, end abuse-
keep someone from hanging a noose.
You cut in three's
Because of the Holy Trinity--
He is your grace, salvation, forgiveness.
But isn't it ironic?
As your white skin blooms
That you'd seek comfort
Is it okay,
To feed off of someone’s insecurities?
To tell them shut up so often that they are afraid to speak out?
To make them want to crawl into a corner and hide?
Is it okay,
I think sometimes the sky should be a chalkboard that I can scribble on
That way everyone can see my thoughts
And maybe be entertained
They would see ornate designs and oriental shades
If I were given the power to change one thing,
to be given a chance to change a human being
I would make the diabled whole,
something that would complete their soul
I would give the blind a world of color,
If I were given the power to change one thing,
to be given a chance to change a human being
I would make the diabled whole,
something that would complete their soul
I would give the blind a world of color,
I would change
If I could change
women’s volleyball shorts.
their function is fine,
They fit the way they were designed to
I am able to dive,
hit
pass
and spike
in them.
In dreams
My my voice, my will
Are as mighty as your deity.
Just as busy moments become still,
Speeding up the mental drill,
All respect Creators as they were meant to be.
Creators, crafting
Some days I stand upon an edge
And the soft hills of that yearned-for life
tread off in the distance,
Watercolor hills-- less real than I would make them.
Disappointment is a deep, blue abyss.
C is for the children lost.
A for the astounding cost.
N the needle’s painful prick.
C is for the children sick.
E the earthly world does cease.
R is for the rest in peace.
Sitting on the bus with my ears plugged
My sinuses throbbing like wrestling giants
Inside my cotton-filled head, I learned
Of a place more beautiful and sad
Than any I had ever seen.
What would happen, if our inspirations drowned?
If the brook stopped running - from the forest, not a sound?
What would happen, if the robin ceased to sing?
If the wind stopped blowing, or the dove not lift its wing?
When I was four I used to play school with my brother and cousin.We would take turns writing lessons on the chalkboard.The scribbles could have meant anythingFrom art to math to history.
No one hears the girl who cries in the night,
No one sees the girl with tear-stained eyes,
No one cares for the girl who sniffles back her emotions,
People only care to make assumptions.
In her eyes, I saw the rise of a nation
Death to hatred, and life to glory.
In her eyes, I saw bright blessed mornings
Colorful stories, and happiness abound.
In her eyes I saw the gleam of a dreamer
God's greatest gift of birth in disrespect.
A child's life, but now wil never be.
The fate of baby, could have been with me
or you. Not through love you chose to reject.
What would I change?
It’s hard to say.
Our world is far from perfect,
One problem after another.
The question is,
What is the most important?
Starvation? Poverty?
Pollution of the environment?
Change.
Who would say they are good enough that they don't need
Change?
Who would say they do not want to make
Change?
Who would say the world doesn't need
Change?
None.
The earth’s crust cracks
The hot lava deep from inside writhes in aching pain,
Striving for a release
My face crumbles in agony as I see the cruelty rein on
My heart beats strong
What would I change...?
A whole hell of alot if you ask me....
Why is the melanine in one's skin persecuted?
Why are people hate for their sexuality?
Why are people considered aliens...?
mistrust, the root of all problems.
don't trust your friend
don't trust your neighbor
don't trust your parents
most of all
don't trust
yourself.
you don't know what you want
The cold gloom clutches my heart.
I fight, I squirm, I cannot escape.
Tears stream down my face.
I wipe them away to no avail, they just come back.
Beauty is there, for everyone to see,
But people now a days seem to be blind.
No thoughts at all, of what beauty can be,
The little white bug glows and hums again,
Within it could be a sting or a hug.
Afraid to see, I reach hesitantly down
And pick up my future, past, and present.
Change people's actions
For others to help one another
Instead of staying in fractions
Days change, seasons change
We age
Minds grow hormones flow
We rage
Images, false images enough is enough
Display something real
What’s the point of touch ups?
To see the children play, laugh, and learn
to read a book, practice piano, or create something new.
They may one day build a better world
through the influence of imagination.
She drinks a bottle, then another, and another
She feels sick and wants to stop
But she knows that she can’t
She needs to feel happy
He has no money left, but keeps borrowing, and gambling
What would you change if you had the power?
Give money to the poor,
Save those in their last hour?
"it's just a phase," they told me.
can phases kill you?
"it's just high scool," they told me.
it's loneliness, it's hell, it's almost fatal.
The starving girl looking in the mirror
Measuring her body
Still thinking she’s too fat
I would change that.
The boy who takes out the bandages
To cover up his cuts
They look this way
I shudder in the cold
Talons through ice
Tearing and crawling
Beneath, all bleed
One step into the mirror, You see a girl you hate to be. Never talking to anyone, always filled with doubt. My mouth is sealed shut but my heart remains untouched.
Change is meant to be new and innovatingDespite the risk of failure and fearDeep within I wish to change the way this system educations runsPeople make simple complex and complex too complex
READ ALL ABOUT IT!
But do you really?
A boy in the back of the class scars on his wrist.
The girl in the front throws up to keep her figure.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH US?
So I confessed,
I need time.
With just you.
So you say,
“I’ll give you the day.”
Like it’s the hardest thing in the world to do.
So you picked today,
You turn your head and look at me.
I can see the ocean in your eyes.
What happens to the waves after they crash?
The shells are tossed and thrown against the shore,
But underneath the wrath of the sea,
What will I tell my children
15 years from now?
My brave 8 year old boy and his sweet 5 year old sister?
"Why mommy, is daddy away all the time?" They ask:
"Because he is catching the bad guys"
A look
A smile
A nose turned up
A small crinkle in the heart
Eye contact made
A quick little wave
A sharp piercing glare
Eye contact broke
Out on the street
What would I cange to be with you
Something that I thought hard and through
I would change everything and more
I will tear down the earth's core
It would be hard to see
You with anyone else but me
If I can change one thing about the world
what would be I would say where to start
poverty strickin lows
violence abuse depression
starvation and weather crisis
so many topics that need attention
Inside all man is a pain for desire. As the insides of you groan, like the earth groans for something.. you.. yourself cant provide it..
Little girl, dry your tears
For today you are free
Your body is healed
Your soul is flying
No longer wanting to flee
Little girl, walk in the sun
Will I ever receive love?
Will I ever receive a home?
I could make a great friend
I could be your best friend
I have feelings too
I have emotions too
Please, bring me inside from the cold
I would change the way we hate ourselves
throw and trash and skin ourselves
hate the curves and bumps of ourselves
I would find the love of a child
a happy with skinned knees child
I did not go.
I would have gone to the memorial.
I do not know.
What he would say,
I will always wonder,
If I would have expressed my feelings that day.
I can't seem to remember
when time ran away
I know it must have been here
at some point before the play
It makes me feel so dizzy
when I turn around
tripping on my own two feet
Imagine a people who seek...
to love ALL people
to heal ALL hurts
to free ALL in bondage
to provide ALL needs
to guide ALL the lost
to restore ALL broken relationships
Charity
Charity is something you can't see
It's felt
Your heart swells up when you feel it
Cuz it's love
It's kindness
It's selflessness for all man-kind
Show a little kindless
Tony.
The name on a pizza but
That wasn’t your name.
It’s just what people called you when you held
Slimy beers in your hand
When you had a pipe and some
Green leaves, white powder,
Silence
It surrounds me
Someone talking in the other room
Someone is laughing
But the silence is around me
Crushing me.
I can’t breathe.
I wait a moment, I blink
She’s twelve
Damn she is so hot
WOW she has huge boobs
look at that ass
words spoken by people about others only looking at sex appeal not character
the media thows women in my face
If I could change one thing in the world,
If it were up to me,
I would change the way kids are taught
In our public schools
I would make students see,
That learning is so much more,
...as I prepare for college...
It's stressful, the whole process of getting there,
but it's worth it...
It totally is worth it...
-JF
If there’s one thing that makes me cry
It’s seeing the cold tears from my mother’s eyes
That fall because she tries to pay
Everyone dreams it
A tweek here and there,
but is it worth it?
Become someone else.
Change just a little
or change everything?
What point is too much?
Cheers...
To all the girls and boys who made it to see another day even though there are some who struggle to go the right way
Cheers...
To all my associates who get to walk across the stage in 48 days
Feelin’ Uneasy
"I hate you!" I'd scream at my parents as a kid with little knowledge of the meaning
Hate: a word so harsh many have trouble believing there's ever a reason to legitimately mean it
What would I change you ask? Id change how people judge a person for whats on the outside, they do not judge for whats within. You see because whats on the outside could be ugly and terrifying and then be beautiful and couragous on the inside.
i want to steal from the richfind where all the loveliness hidesand put it into people's bonesbecause they have particles of beautyin their blood.
What is beauty?
To society now-a-days it’s a number on a scale, a pants size, a model face
A perfect smile, A skinny waist, a beautiful dress made of lace
So superficial it is, that we let beauty be this
Drones, Drones, Drones
All around the sky
Missiles fall from up high
A robotic world is nigh.
Innovative Uncle Sam
Believes he is free from restraint
All around the world
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Isn’t that obvious? Isn’t that conventional?
Two demons together surely doesn’t work.
But his scars match mine while filling my cracks
Oh if I could change it.
Believe me, if I could i would
but is it me or is it them
I don't know so how then can I
Change.
My heels click against the pavement.
I look and I see a puzzle
A book
A poem
A movie
Pieces in the wrong spot
Horrible use of grammar and syntax
With words that don't fit the topic
And a butchered editing job
Brush strokes on canvas can not combine,
Voices indignant can change no mind,
Stuttering steps will never align.
Not while cradled by fear.
Little girl who dreams of more,
Boy, time really flies. I cannot believe it is 2014...
Oh how I wish this year would be a year of ultimate change.
Determination and dedication, I shall more acquaint myself to you,
Here
That policeman walking down the street
Is a friend.
He will come when called.
He is a man of the law.
But there
That grungy policeman
Huddled in a dirty
If I could change one thing
I would change the petty people.
The ones that smile and chat
And then stab you in the back.
These falsified people
Who treat others like dirt,
Should all meet each other
The renewing of my mind would not be an easy feat
18 years of conditioning will be a struggle to reverse
18 years of thinking that I was never enough;
good enough, smart enough, pretty enough
In a world of many choices
I am offered few;
all my future choices
are sadly left to you.
I want nothing more than love
and a warm and caring home,
some food to keep my healthy,
Silence.
I’m choosing not to speak.
Everything I say, I say it on repeat.
My answer- I don’t know. Silence.
Yes. I really do.
They said it would come soon
But what kind of change did they seek
Freedom
Change the word freedom is what I wish
All unspoken souls unravel the mess in their heads and inhale the truth
Change “freedom”
Love your neighbor as you love yourself
What if everyone lived by that rule?
What would it change in this world?
Greed for money and jewls
Maybe even politicians would stop their scheming
Oh as the world moves to the seasons of the Sun
And the sky changes throughout the day
Fist a yelloworange to the brightest blue to peach and then darkness
Even on the gloomy days
Tall, slender, and yellow
It would be like the top of the world
To sit on such a beaut
Tall, slender, and yellow
"Do as I say, not as I do."
the familiar sting of the phrase can date back to you,
to your memories of a child hearing curses
and threats,
watching mom and dad fight
do we have equality? i'd say no
why can't my sister marry her fiance?but my cousin is going into marriage #5
why do i have no idea how to come out? and my straight sister never had to
It all started when I was just a thought in my mothers mind
A guessing game for the ages
I waited
Waited in the corners of my mothers heart
In the nutrient enriched darkness of uncertainty
Of care
I find myself
In a worIld--
A world where
fate is my own,
hate is unknown.
And all absurdity
World peace, hunger, war, disease.
There are many who wish they could change these.
But in order for us to heal those things,
We must first take a look at our stings.
From our much smaller cuts, we bleed,
Why must we be fat?
Why must the food be bad.
Eat a burger feels like you got hit by a bat.
Then there are these diets that are fad.
As America we are not healthy
We are not strong
What could be wrong
I walk down this lonely alley every night
The moon lights my like a light tower in the sea
I talk to the devil every night I meet this alley
I hold him by the neck and he comes by the name of Jack
If I drop one tear it’s for my brother
Living alone with no mother
Thought that life couldn’t get any worse
When guns putted my brother in a hearse
On a road to fame...
Most people would expect to see shame.
Drugs, sex, and violence, stain the lives of the rich and famous.
These "idols" inspire us teens to do the same,
But really, who is to blame?
Paint my smile
Rouge my cheeks
Take the darkness from my face
Soothe my thoughts
Heal my fractures
Take the darkness from my mind
Life my spirits
Cheer my heart
If we opened our arms,
To hug her tight,
If we wiped the tears,
of whom cried at night,
If we listened to the voices,
That were afraid to speak,
So eager to be heard,
But never said a word.
what would i change?
no matter how big or small
what would i change?
I would make the smallest kids seem tall
I would give knowledge to the ones who need it most
If I could change everything,
I woulnt change anything.
God put our community together a certain way because he knows we can overcome any struggle.
All we can do is put our heads up and help eachother.
If I had the power to change anything in the world,
The power to change anything,
Anything at all...
I would change how people view the world around them.
Some people see the beauty.
What Would You Change
You have just been given the power to change anything in the world
What would you change?
Humans are the dominant species
Creating buildings that penetrate skies,
And having every artificial and natural luxury
From this, our evils arise…
Entitlement
Selfishness
Disregard
Hate.
What I would change
In this world with many things
Is the attitude towards women
When they wear shorter things
Because I shouldn’t be judged
Or followed down a street
For wearing a dress
When given the choice
Of what I would change
I say go big
Or go home
I would change
The way life works
and even make God
Scratch his head
Imagine a world
*I wish Trayvon and Jordan were names I never knew. If I could, yes I would, rewind the tape to before the bullets flew.
*I’d stop and reflect on how it came to be. These teens each one - black just like me.
The United States of AmericaThe New WorldAn escape for a new lifeA new beginning
The floors painted red
The yelling is over
The sky has turned smoky
With souls put forever to rest
Why imagine that you have the power
to change any one thing
when really you are as worth
as one who is a queen or king?
Who would choose to change
only one part of this life
Maybe it’s ‘cause I’m not pretty.
Maybe it’s ‘cause I’m not always calm.
But whatever it was, how did I deserve what they did to me?
I wasn’t born in this city.
I didn’t want to be ripped from my mom.
People with Special Needs,
Would just be special and just have needs.
What would I change?
Change comes in many forms
Physically and mentally.
You change the color of your hair to fit your personality.
But what about permanent changes,
the ones we never get back?
I brought you into this world I can take you out.
These are familiar words that every black child hears when they act up
The Father, our Father
clenches his jaw and whispers these words into our ears
They're there to comfort you and to take care
But, what makes it seem as if they re always unfair?
Is it because you don't get your will?
Is it beause you don't get your way?
Like in the beggining
i think of a change
not my fault that I aspire to dream
wHo doesn't sin or make a mistake
does not mean they are bound straight to hell
we are on a wire
Change.
We all crave it.
But lets pause and lay on the sticky grass.
Change.
Listen to the slow jamz throughout the summer nights.
Change.
Don't change the station even if you don't enjoy the song.
This planet is home
but we treat it with such waste
we trample this place
yet we claim to be the superior race?
Mother Earth is hurting
she needs some help
our society needs changing
If I could change one thing in this world,
I would take away all the hate
that we thrust upon one another.
My heart is healthy
A doctor would say,
But I know it's not healthy
In the most important way.
It beats and it pumps,
It does its job fine;
But it's sick and it's black,
Children today are estranged from nature
Missing out the little experiences
Like skipping a stone across a pond
Or hearing the chirping cicadas on a summer day
Or feeling the sun's gentle warmth on your skin
It's great to see technology increase for the better good.It's great to see people control manual robots for precise surgeries.It's great that deaf people can hear, and soon blind people will see.
Change is coming in this life
or the next to make in my community
Is providing the youth with multiple opportunities to get involved.
Children will most likely stay out of trouble
If I could change
one thing
it would be
hate.
Girl, small
growing up fast
told she's never good enough
put her down
make it a joke.
Girl, older
growing up slower
If I can change something,
or if can make anything,
I would end the wars,
well that aleast something,
If I can change anything,
I would try to erase evil,
I can do anything,
You Ask Who/ What Am I
I am the girl that will chage thousands minds and make the economy green
The girl that will makes sure our comuity is a better place to live
They say the world's a stage
Filled with actors hoping to memorize lines to a page
Well I hope to skip to the chapter where it all ends
Where lies come to a stop and we can begin to mend
If we could but become one with all life,
And see the world through others' eyes, I wonder,
would problems seem small if we looked down
At them through the eyes of a high-soaring eagle
Most of us would want to change the world.
Some of us might even change ourselves.
I would tell us to change how we look.
I don't mean go out and get a complete makeover.
If feet beacme hands
what would you have?
Two extra hands, just what the world needs
two hands for watches
two hands for saving time
Two extra hands are what the world needs
two hands for inspiring
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words left scars that can't heal.
I was told I was of lower class,
There they are, you see them
Society judge them, but do you?
Do you see what society tells you to see or what you want to see?
She doesnt like to dress fem
Is this a problem, does it hurt you?
The world always adjustsEven when everyday is the exactly same, no two are alikeThere is always something original or a new tale to discussEven routine is incredibly unique
To change, alter, modifyIf I had the power to revolutionize,Every stroke of the brush placed in my right handwould ever so gracefully trace my vision.
From violence to insanity, I will change it all.
From the kidnappings to the murders, i will change it all.
From the guilty to the accused, I will change it all.
Wealth, it's such an illusion. Seeing it on TV causes us confusion. The rich sitting and doing nothing but indulging in luxuries. Never revealing the hard work put into their companies. Every effect has a cause.
Save the trees,save the bees.Shall we appeaseall off theseideas to change today?
I highly doubt that I apply,The bees are plump and tree grow high.Instead, I look at those around me.
so we grew up in boxes
tall rigid
unyeilding
that allow for nothing but conformity
designed from conception when
sperm meets egg
our parents didn't know but every time they told us
so we grew up in boxes
tall rigid
unyeilding
that allow for nothing but conformity
designed from conception when
sperm meets egg
our parents didn't know but every time they told us
If i could change
Id chage the word
i bring in homeess people
off the strets ill save
Them from the witer nights
and the rainy days
put food n there empty bellys
so they would never go hungry
In the beginning I'm granted with life. How can this be?
I'm blessed with a soul that lasts for all eternity
There's a being that watches over me
His existence is a mystery
I would like those that walk blind to see
not those with physical handicap, but those suffering something far worse
People starve, suffer, and die everyday
yet we pass them by
and never hear their cries
It’s not something physical
and that’s what makes it difficult.
The key to change is always education.
Not just of the main applications
But the liberation of the mind
There are thirteen letters that I crave to hear,
In a specific order, however.
I want to listen to parents whisper it in childrens ears,
I want people who think they're clever,
People who think they're right,
Imagine a world..
A world where there was no more countless killing
A world filled with peace and love
Change is something that should be seen more around the world. I grow up seeing poor people but was completely clueless why they did not have a home.
The way people view others
It's such a shame
If I were king for a day
That is what I would change
The color of skin pigment
Can create severe judgment
Arabians accused of terror
- as i sit here waiting to come up with the decision of what i would change about myself, the world, or my community. then i noticed i never really had a answer, or just one answer to this question.
Change; a single word to revere,
Bringing about hope or fear,
Depending on the ear the word falls near.
To change the world; a new frontier
Or uproot a life you hold so dear.
My hair, the color of straw
Compared to others it seems very blah
I am not who they think I need to want to be
But do I need to care what they think I should think that I need
My body is curved and round
Look at her hair,
Look at his shoes,
There's a creepy man over there, drinking some booze.
A white man shot, it's all over the news,
A black man down "it's his fault, what did he do?"
There’s something wrong
When daughters
No longer want their fathers
To walk them down the isle
When suddenly the picture frame
I'm paying for a piece of paper.I'm paying to take classes with information that I can find online with the click of a buttton.I'm paying to stay in a dorm where rules are constantly broken, and my sanity incessantly tested.
I look forward to the day
When the share post doesn't need to say:
"Share if you are a strong black woman who doesn't need a man."
"Share if you are a strong woman who doesn't need a man."
There was a little seedOne planted six feet downHidden from earths greedInnocence in the groundEach and every day it grewNever in a huryHad lots of time to think things through
Warm Feet
If you do what you like, you’ll never work a day in your life.
There’s always a way to do it your way and get paid, so I’ve been told.
Who has time to help others these days?
Why care about them when all I want is to get paid.
Yen, pounds, dollars, and notes.
Change is forgotten between the cushions of most.
What if you could see that person one more time,
What if you could hold their hand, and look into their eyes,
What if you could talk to them and laugh out loud,
the world of today
has so much to offer us....
but to what extent?
We clean it, we trash it
however, how can we do?
and what can we do?
Someone save me.
The world is turning into turmoil.
Everyone's gone crazy.
Politicians are stealing money.
Children are being killed overseas.
Young girls are selling their bodies.
So short
the way we live
why not change while we can
we can change the way we see
no labels on people
look at them all the same
look at tehm with love not hate
treat people with kindness
Everyone has dreams and goals,
but it may take some time for things to unfold.
And once you begin to make some ground,
next adversity will come around.
I've heard over and over the sky's the limit,
Think for a moment if we didn't consume;
If we didn't eat,
If we didn't drink-
More time on the clock for personal use,
More accomplished feats,
More seconds to think-
I'm fed up with the drama
It never seems to end
I'm fed up with the tears
That no amount of hugs will mend
I'm fed up with th attitudes
They drive me insane
Ever known the feeling of a stomach that knows no fullness?What would you change if you could stop all the badness?
We all have those few people,
those who suffer,
those who can not fight back.
Stand up. Stand up and make a change.
Let's talk about change - there's something we don't like
There's something we have in common - there's something we have in our eyes
We never know what we're going to actually do - at least, not until the last nanosecond when
Think,
Thought,
Time,
That is all it takes.
Take a moment,
To really appreciate,
Think of the choices,
Think of the effects,
Think of the people around you instead.
If ignorance is bliss
Then let me off this
Ride
I refuse to be blind
Shutting off my mind
Forever
Okay to only follow
Is a thought I cannot swallow
Down
Let's do this before we expire
don't look away or you too will transpire
into a mindless individual a zombie to them
they take you and use you until you are dead
open your eyes and listen closely
I would change everything.
The way we speak to each other,
The way we treat one another.
The violence,
As cheered on by the media.
The silence,
A dollar, a dime a minute
Time is money honey, where'd you sleep last night?
A stranger's bed is warmer
Than the cold, hard street, she says,
Every foot that walks on by
Might as well be a kick in the face
my life has indeed been pretty simple
it has been pretty good, not to crazy
but you know have what i have wished to do
i wish i did more
more for the community, more for others
Change is big.
A new look in eyes of the beholder & others as well as yourself.
I would change the violence in the world.
No need to talk of world piece
But maybe of those who use it as an answer
Those who are paraded onstage
And asked "What does our society need?"
Men say we are equal
But...we aren't
I sat watching the snow,
freshly laid on the cold, soppy ground,
grass flattened like a callous on a toddler’s head,
shining and glistening white and yellow,
gazing at the snow and dead grass,
If I could change one thing, it would be misery.
Because misery is as old as history.
No one deserves to feel such pain,
that cannot be fixed with personal gain.
Misery can be caused by many things,
i wonder if we will ever realize we look an awful lot like ants
working so hard to move over a crumb
proudly building our beds but the storm can wash it away any minute
panicking over a dew drop
if i would change one thing.
one thing in this heartless world-
this perverted culture-
this unforgiving city-
this violent school-
this lonely house-
this trampled heart-
it would be-
Life can be beautiful
But for some people it can be brutal
Leading their voice to hide
And to become shyness bride
If I could change one,
I would change the blemish upon my face,
But not the one on yours.
If I could change one thing, I would change the day you lost your confidence
You used to be so strong, bubly, and patient
You painted a path of joy that I eagerly followed
I looked up to you with pride and hope
If I could change one thing it wouldn't be famine, poverty, hunger, or greed.
It's not to bring world peace, or stop hate or end slavery.
Not because I don't think these are problems, they are.
Why change?
When you live fine with how you are
So used to the same thing
The same schedule
Same routine
With a peek into the sky,
I forgot where I lie.
Upon a place I wished to know,
I twisted my head to and fro.
Whatever happened to the evaluation of our own sins
before casting stones at others?
Have we all forgotten that lesson?
What would you change,
the way you look or smell?
The way they make you feel strange?
or the way you look as you fell?
Nobody knows how you feel,
nobody knows your ways,
they dont know you heal,
My wish is to change the equality between everyone in the world
To walk the world knowing everyone is equal, but is looking at them with dfferent eyes is like the world is turning upside down
Challenging myself to
Have a better connection with the world
And making myself known while
Never becoming someone I’m not
Going to be proud of in the
I would change the stares, the whispers, the words
that exit an eye, a mouth without consequence
of how that exchange can change her life.
I would change the apathy, the indiffence, the exuses
How strange
to think I could make a change
I think of you
and all the other people too
I want it to be green
I want it to be clean
To make a change
To rearrange,
My dearest friends, welcome to the 21st century
where a beautiful woman is defined by her money.
What would I change ?
The world....
so that children would be fed
hate would be dead
and love can wed
so that promises could be kept
and tears wouldn't be wept
but where dream's leapt
"Oh my God, I love your skirt!
(That is the ugliest f-ing skirt I've ever seen)"
I mean, who hasn't seen Mean Girls?
I watch and I laugh
But isn't it funny how when we laugh,
The women, who face persecution still
With paychecks that won’t fill the bill
What about the others
The internment camp group
Japanese who were captured and colored
As terrorists and
Worse communists
We are born unwonted.
some keep up with such a wonky personality,
some are pushed into categories
by the dogmatic dictators of society,
some of our eyes shine curiously,
because we know...
In my world the pink would be purple,
The orange would be blue.
Gray would be a yellow no one ever knew.
The grass shant be green, and the sky shant be blue.
The young would be old, and the old would be new.
She doesn't care where you are coming from or going to
She doesn't care how old you are or how wise you've become
Vision has been a treasure to me
Ever since I was young
But then, three years ago,
A new song was sung
I was only seventeen
It is our country's disagreement
that furthers our environment,
of homes without fathers, sisters, sons
that are away, fighting for some
peace between the nations,
but it was our leaders' own decisions
Home makes a difference.
Hard work makes a difference.
Stamina makes a difference.
Perserverence.
Support.
Patience.
These should all be enstilled in all.
We live in a society full of inequality
An open drawer or a closed book
It shouldn’t even matter, the way we look
Insecurities are our bullies
In this crazy world, what would I change?
If I had the opportunity to plan and rearrange.
I'd change people's attitude and some of these laws, imperfection would be perfect, we'd admire everyone's flaw and all.
Modern times deliver new changes
equal wages equal rights and equal lives
tattoos and piercings as common as high fives
anyone can get married
and even hair color has become varied
They tell me that your love is one that can't withstand their reality.
They claim that all I need is a grasp of familiarity.
A look-see into the future so I can stop wondering where I ought to be.
A man sees another man.
The man endears the other man.
The men love one another.
*turns page*
The men are an abomination.
The father beats the child.
The father starves the child.
How is it okay
to discriminate, hate, or criticize
based on cruel judgements made
without
he's always eager for school to end
they tease and taunt
his jeans never fit right,
he only has two sweaters.
but to them,
it's funny
she goes about her school day embarrassed
Waking up
Filled with anger
Blaming the world
Why - Do I
Do this to myself
It's just me and no one else
The games I play
The things I say
If I could Change I would... Change anger to happiness, Change hate to love, Change violence to peace, Change crime to good deeds, Change controverse to resolution, Change pain to laughter...
If I could change this
I would change our thoughts
All the hate and the blame
the intent to diss
while evryone rots
I would end all the shame
no segreation no hate
just love
If I could change one thing I would change everything.
Politicians wouldn't lie and innocent people wouldn't die.
I would change the way this democracy runs, where the people, not the corporations are number one.
I stand behind a glass case.I am an object to behold.For my submissive nature and gentler tones.
I tend to children, I tend to the injured.I remain hidden behind a man.For my lesser gender, and simple mind.
I would change the way people think
But since that is no the case
I would not change a thing
Our world was perfect
"Change" is such a funny word,
always begging for attention.
With its sloppy "chhh" slurred,
constantly eluding comprehension.
"Change" really is a funny word.
Don't you think I'm right?
What would I change?
Me..
Somehow recreate a better version of myself in the hopes that it will create a change in society as well
What would I change?
Him..
College is expensive, on that we can all agree
But what it means, is to have a good education, at least to me
There are lots of good people out there to meet
That would be willing to help you eat
Change could help out the world.
To have more peace then hate.
No more feuding between different things
This kind of change could more nations.
If there was one thing I could it would be the way my town is seen. From towns around we are know as the violence plagued town. Every night on the evening news the top story is another homocide. Never anything positive.
Waking up is difficult for me
That's when the thoughts start
Mirrors torment me
I don't look like beautiful girls look
I am not a size two
My hair is a mess
My stomach potrudes more than I want
We should spend more of our time staring out windows rather than staring at our reflections.
We should spend more of our time submerging ourselves in books rather than drowning our hearts in false love.
Looking down over 200 feet.
I pause.
I climb back down.
Again, I climb up,
Hoping. Hoping. Hoping
Desperately
That I could fly,
be unafraid.
I only wish for everyone to know.
To know the truth.
To know our Savior.
To know the cure for LIFE.
We take freedom for granted
While others are tortured and jailed
Round the corner again.
Walk 20 meters to your right.
Now go forward 15 paces.
Turn back. Look around. Feel the breeze.
Its warm. Could be called sunny even.
Sit down in the shade next to him.
When I'm told I could change anything
The dark, blank slate of my mind lights up with a million stars
I realize I could have money, fame, power
My smile is hidden in concern.
My words are trapped in all the worry.
They have received all the glory for my talents and my song.
Poverty tickles my toes and brushes my hair.
If I could change something big or small
I would choose to change it all
Nothing can become better without growth
Even change seems out the picture, the most important piece is hope
You can’t fix world hunger without first feeding the starving mouths in your community
You can’t fix poverty without first helping someone buy necessities
You can’t fix pollution without recycling
The choice is mine
Suddenly I see
A million things
relying on me.
To change a life?
To disrupt a cycle?
Can I validate this happening?
What to choose;
What to do;
I’m aware we’ve been trained to believe that the anorexic frame
Is the most desirable frame of the female form,
Curves are out and thin is in,
The one thing I would change is love, that is it
For nothing but love hurts worse than love, I'll admit
It kills and it shrivels and knocks us all down
It warms and it fills and changes a frown
You view her as pretty, nice, and sweet
But she is not what she appears to be
Behind the facade she is a monster
Who unwillingly destroys and never prospers
She tries to change but its just too hard
If I could change anything I would change it all.
But for this here I was told to think small.
The biggest change I would like to make,
involves the unforgiving souls for goodness sake!
If I could change anything,
I wouldn't change a thing.
To change a thing would change the world,
thats not for us to do.
If I could change a big thing,
I wouldn't change a thing.
If I could change anything, I would start at the core of the problem.
Myself.
Before I can change anything, I must look from within and pick myself apart to discover every last flaw I might have.
We look in the mirror and see a thing,
We are so set on what this thing should be,
The hardest realization that goes through our mind or occupies our time,
Is the reality of our human being,
Everywhere I go and everywhere I look
I see people….
I see cars
I see homes
But on my side of town
I see poverty
I see disgrace
I see hate
What wouldn’t I change?
Change the perspective
Change what's right and wrong written or spoken
Change what's yours or mine – ours
There is so much greed in this world
Money is the only true God now
And that can't change.
If God was to ask me what I desire,
If a genie was to grant me one wish,
I know one hope burns inside like fire,
That all the defiliers could be demolished.
The man who took the girl from home,
I had a dream that someday I’d winWriting and writingagain and again I had a dream that this was the oneCould it be I’ve finally wonOnly to loseoh yesagain
Lovely doves not flying around my area
I would change that
People walking down the streets without a smile
I would change that
A homeless person sitting cold and alone
I would change that
America: Home of the free? I think not.
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the sick get sicker.
Our government has screwed up priorities,
so quick to fly troops overseas to assists other nations,
If I had a time machine
I'd go back
And mentor the dumb, ignorant child
Who fought like hell to keep pace.
She ate more cheetos than apples
And ate 3 servings of dinner
She wore XL clothing
For the thought of any
Person to impress themselves upon
Another by force to be
Incomprehensible.
No one ever told me it's okay, it's okay to be so anxious you can feel your heart wanting to jump out of your chest.
“If you could change anything about yourself
What would it be?”
The question that haunts
Children endlessly
“I’d change my hair”
One replies
Another –
“My eyes”
I dwell in a constant space, without change
Where faces begin to act as one.
Where words without thought crawl forth
And where the mighty sun stands without change.
The wind blows,
the river goes,
my mind wanders,
but I can only ponder.
Why are we on this earth?
All we do is keep giving birth.
We give birth to monsters.
and we are the sponsers...
Compared to this world I am young
But I am as powerful as any President
I would change the world to be better place
Do away with all of the pollution
I Aim For A Better World
By: Kary Dujuan Goff Jr.
I am green and gold, and sometimes grey.
If I could change but one thing in this world of ours
It would be the definition of normal
Or rather the existence of that vague yet constricting concept
So simple yet so broad yet so double-edged this rigid definition is
What has happened to the world today?
Where has hard work gone, I say?
Everyone I see has their palm held out.
Waiting for a freebie from their neighbor, no doubt.
What has happened to the world I see?
I walk down the streets
on the dark and damp sidewalks,
seeing men and women huddled in a corner shivering and hurting from hunger.
How could this be the land of the free,
The universe is a place of mystery.
The faithful try to confront it with miracle and faith.
The scientific try to explain it with reasoning and proof.
Potential adversaries, they are.
If I could change one thing
I would change the locks on my sister's eyes
so that she wouldn't see the air-brushed women on the cover of magazienes.
I would bar her ears from the kids at school
My English homework asks me to name things
that are considered taboo in society.
You know what people don't like to talk about?
Sexual assault, the fact that there is no gender binary,
"We better not see it."
"Put it away."
"No you can't use it at lunch."
It's all wrong.
We deserve freedom to text,
call,
instant message,
and check our social media.
How can we live in a world
where nobody even cares?
Filth and destruction,
everywhere you look.
You can't look away
from the digust.
Mother Nature can't believe
this can even be happening.
How often do we wish for
something so simple,
a sign that people care,
that there is kindness in everyone's hearts,
yet we forget to smile at strangers.
I try to remember that when I see others,
Everyone wants to be different
But we still remain the same.
Claiming things we will never do;
This is what I would change.
If we actually contributed,
If we actually helped,
We're all human; please do not take your pain out on the rest of us. I can be your friend, a motivator, i can help you because it's hurting others.
I would change the way, people look at things.
The pain and the suffering we cause for everything.
Like the right for people to say, the things they truely feel.
Her shadow was so bright that I could not see.
I hoped for a new change of time, or woman to see.
My wish was bare and I gained nothing more,
The sweeping sounds cascade out of the stage
Bouncing around the room,
Mixing with the cushioned chairs
And the old-people smell.
The brass blasts out a baleful melody
We define people by their skin color,
Black and
White,
Yet we are all different shades of brown.
Does it make us different beings?
Does it change the purity of ones heart?
If I could change anything about the world
I would change the media
Summer,
Warmth that enveloes my skin and ignites my soul,
Lingers for mere months,
I wish for it year-round.
Heat.
Winter,
A chill that surges down my spine and deteriorates my soul.
I hate hate.
There are so many things in the world that need to be changed,
but hate is the first thing that needs to go.
Hate takes many different forms and is all too easy to have.
Free your mind
Take your time
Reach the golden skiyline
Test limits
Lift spirits
Be as the dawn rising
Don't hold back
Don't lose track
Of what you need to do
Push harder
Poison setting in the blood and mind
A rush to get some help, living down the road
Running down the rabbit hole fighting for his life
A great loss of brother and friend, he did not make the code.
Cold hands
invade the innocence
of cold souls
Cold souls afraid
to save themselves
of cold nights
and cold eyes
baring upon them
The Ant House
Mirrors
have been guiding us
through the smoke
since as long as man can remember.
Fools;
a society of leashed fools
I wouldn't change one thing in the world. Light can not exist without darkness The bad timesare what make the good one worth so much more. Without struggles there would be no way to
If I could change one thing,
What would it be?
Would I change the world?
No war, no illness
Plenty of food
Lots of green trees?
Would I change society?
I would change this one thing,
To help change everything.
I would have all know,
God loves them so.
These days,
sleep is not rejuvinating.
It is merely a break.
Our schedules have become god.
Living under its laws, commands, edicts.
A calendar has become a checklist
I live in a society in which
the people –
they don’t care.
They tut and they tsk at third-world problems
“Rape is bad”, they recite,
“and dirty water is horrible
Money money money that's all we ever talk about.
People who don't have enough just want to scream and shout.
Some people worked hard and can now call themselves rich.
If I possessed the ability to help every person I saw hiding inside themselves;
Their arms protectively wrapped around their body,
I’d tell them to walk with arms outstretched in front of them.
We live in a world,
so full of hate.
We live in a world,
where that hate
is directed towards ourselves.
We point out every flaw,
and slowly begin
to hate ourselves,
We live in a world,
so full of hate.
We live in a world,
where that hate
is directed towards ourselves.
We point out every flaw,
and slowly begin
to hate ourselves,
Looking down at the scale,
A little girl’s legs tremble in fear.
In shock she turns pale,
Hoping she could disappear.
“I must starve! I must starve!
No one will love me,
If I do not barf.”
Who am I to say what matters and what doesn't?Am I not someone?I've always been toldthat I am too young or too oldto think or to know,and I've got nothing to show.When will this change?
Please do not doubt a word I say to you,
My thoughts and my words are sincere and true.
And to you my darling, I must confess,
My happy love has been put to the test.
I would change
is the uncertainty
that the troubled ones face
the ones
from a broken home
facing disabilities
there is hope
for each and
all of us
Suffocating teachers
Stressful cliques
Vulgar language
Vindictive characters
Early on I picked up the responsibilities of those who should have been there for me
it was second nature holding my own and never mourning the wilt of my youth,
Many times the world has seen someone standing alone.
Many times the world has seen someone without a home.
Many times a smile could have gone a long way.
Many times there were nicer things to say.
The Image of Beauty
What is beauty?
Is it shaped, colored, living, a symbol, an image?
Ian Holderman
What Would You Change Scholarship Slam
Why do we sit idle day after day?
If I could change one thing,
It would be the unnecessary pain.
Stop all bullying,
And all of the self harm that is the result.
All of the name calling,
That would be gone too.
This religion was not mine.
This rich heritage and culturethat has been blanketed over mewas not given to me at birth.
I was given no choice in the beginningto accept what God had planned for me.
The red scratches
Across your wrist
Cut me as much as you
I don't know you
I don't know why I care
I don't understand
But I'd take the blade
From your hand
And wash it down the drain.
What would I change
something you hear lot
coming from our role-models
teachers, parents
But in truth who knows
what to change
what to change
I would love to give you a serious answer to your serious question. Picture my tightening my imaginary tie and clearing my throat, about to pitch you the fix of a life time. I would love to tell you that I’m about to cure cancer. But I’m not.
When I turn on the nightly news,I don't watch the weather forecast anymore.
Change is painful and stressful,
But it is necessary to move on.
Sometime change is dreadful,
Other times it is as easy as a song.
The media and its responses
to little girls' pleas at night
hoping the answer will be right.
"You are beauty my dear child."
Mirrors lie,
TV hides the real women behind makeup and silkscreens.
Fake.
If I could change the world, I would erase hate.
Simple as that.
All skin colors and religions would be accepted and celebrated.
And lovers of all combinations wouldn't fear being seperated.
So They Say
Why be so greedy?
Why let that destroy you, destroy us
This world revolves around money
Absurd how people are rich while others suffer from poverty.
I look at them, their hearts on their sleeves.
Unabashed, unashamed, they stare at each other
Their eyes, so fierce, so knowing
Their touches, so confident, so sure
And their hearts, their hearts on their sleeves.
If there was one thing I could change
I would make a world of peace
Bound together by hope
That we shall live with those we love
I promised myself I would never,
end up like you.
That I would never,
do the things you do.
Imagine living,
not surviving, but being free,
where doors can be unlocked at night,
where police are seen as just and right,
isn't that true liberty?
Now picture the means,
Everywhere people seeing with sightless eyes.
Feeling with closed hearts.
Distancing themselves from another's reality.
Over looking the fallen, the helpless, the beaten down and the broken.
how can you hate an infant who never asked to be born?
how can you outcast someone who grew up different?
how can you hate, how can you hate,
we never asked to be where we are,
We Are The Same
We were made the same
The big, round world is everyone’s fair game.
We all have thoughts, desires, and wishes.
When you're born in an encouraging household
The world is seen through different eyes
You don't have to struggle for love or validation
Sure your family is not "perfect"
But they raised you to believe in yourself
She hated herself for what she’d become:
all alone with no one to talk to.
She didn’t know why
no one liked her. She couldn’t
understand what made her
different
I wish you could have watched me grow up
I wish you had held me when I was scared,
You treated me like I was a hiccup
Almost like you hadn’t cared
I wish you could have known I was a “daddy’s girl”
I would change people minds.
It would not be anything bad.
I would just make people more kind,
Discrimination, inequality, and prejudice,
words of hate and ignorance.
"Better", "traditional", "correct",
that girl is dressed in black
from her head down to her toe
her name lost in a stereotype
that some may call "emo"
that boy who holds his lovers hand
and smiles as he kisses his lips
What would you change?
Such a simple question
People wanna talk
But they don't wanna hear the lesson
They say they will be there for you
But their mouth is always running
Whenever you try to speak
I want to give freedom!
I want to give it now
To the African child
thrust into warfare at random
to the the millions starving men, women, and children
to the thousands of kids
Maybe instead of just blaming all these celebrities who are in jail and rehab for ruining their own lives
Maybe we should also take a look at how this country treats its celebrities
Why don't you stop and stare?
Then you'll realize not everybody cares..
it's sad really. People are blind
Blind to the fact that the lady sitting a table behind them suffered from depression
If there is one thing I could change
it would be simple and plan
No certain range for love
And a peace that can remain
If true love exists
Then so does true hate
If there is one thing I could change
it would be simple and plan
No certain range for love
And a peace that can remain
If true love exists
Then so does true hate
What would I change?
The pollution
in the air,
and the water,
and on land,
and in the lungs
of people every where.
What would I change?
Religion's role
in the lives
What would I change?
Why change anything in this wonderful world?
Oh wait. I know what I would change.
What would I change, you might ask?
I would change the military requirement laws.
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The life of us,
It's funny how you pull us down,
lashed out and cut us up,
beat us in drunken madness,
hushed us silent and
kept us stupid, for what?
So you want to change?
I do.
It seems so easy
So there
So right
Right?
If I could change anything
It would be perception
Myself
My Community
The world?
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words always scar
Negligence to be the same
Falling down the road to self hate
They say, “Retarded, idiotic, queer”
I must change
I do change
I will change
This was the promise
I unknowingly made
when I was born into this world of beautiful malice
My freedom to exist and demand
Change?
Could you spare some change?
Maybe the question should not be could you spare change but will you dare to change?
I watched as paul bearers wound you six feet under ground and sprinkled dirt on your pine box?
Where are you going, was it by choice or by chance or did time just run out on your life’s clock?
The ability to change anything in the world, with a snap of a finger, much like a deity
Unlimited room for potential, yet unlimited room for disappointment
I would live to see the day that society crumbles,
Their ashes in the palm of my hands, all destroyed,
To finally have its remains of the endless hate,
Of the standards that society had created.
If I could I would reach out to the world and cup it in my hands,
I'd change college costs
Then we wouldn't have to write
These goddamn poems.
Lunch room filled with people but he sits in solitude
Third year in high school and does anyone know his name?
Mistreated and abused so he abuses himself
Third year in high school and does anyone know his pain?
What would you change
If given the opportunity
What would you change?
I would change
The amount of waste left behind
I would change
The way people ignore the cries for help.
If I could change anything huh?
I always think to myself money.
Money money money.
We as people run off of money.
It's practically our caffeine.
I sit here now, writing about money because I need money.
Though we may always be divided by strife
it doesn't mean that we have to waste our life.
No, we can live and fight
because we have a right
to find our own light
out in the dark.
When I walk out that door, I want…
To see an end to sexual harrassment, I
Want to see women wearing whatever
they want. And not having to worry about,
Being catcalled or harrased when they
I want to change
Many things in ths world.
But most of all,
What I wish end,
Is Animosity.
Animosity to:
Everything,
Everyone,
What would you change
He said
What would I change...
My mothers' words
And my sisters'
The friends
Who used me
And turned their back
When I needed them the most
My fathers' cancer
I love her with all of my heart.
My broken, mangled, crumbling organ of love.
I want to show her off,
To hold her hand and kiss her in front of more then God above.
But my family's strict.
Is simply human destruction
War is the intation of this action
WWI, WWII, or maybe WWIII, its a chain reaction
Jews in Konzentrationslager
Left or right will be a torture
It is time for a change In our homes. Why must our children lose their innocence? Why are we allowing their childhood to slip away before it can be experienced? Parents Love your children. Let them be children.
Test Anxiety.
Those two words can destroy a person.
Why does this world, so focused on innovation,
continue to use out-dated techniques?
Testing students on their ability
Bigot
Closed Minded
Delusional
Judgemental
Hatred
I have been told that this would happen,
but why?
Other people before us has
If I could change
one thing
it would be
for the ones
sleeping on park benches
not old enough to vote
for the ones in rags
who are carrying another
and for the ones that are starving,
Right now we walk around
In a society where the death rate of African Americans is the highest
Where the race that's in the most poverty are the Latinos and the African Americans
And their health is declining
Stop and thinkDo you know where your next meal will beDo you know when?There are so many children That don't get the opporotunityTo know
My passport says “American”,
I grew up in Ukraine,
No single culture in my head,
The upper hand did gain.
I have my own third culture,
I mix the other two,
And if anything at all it gives,
For years and years I have been told
That i should fear getting old
My beauty will wane
I won't be sane
And that while I can
I should be tan
I should starve and be so thin
Are we actually equal? Do women get the same privileges as men do?
No.
He eats from golden platter, three courses served by his butler
She eats what is stolen, some bread from her brother
He shouts, "Call the guards! There's a thief on the loose!"
many babies have died
from a choice a mother made
not to keep her little baby
but to let the precious life die
so asked what I would change
this is what I would decide
This past winter I was nothing but tired.
Smoke sank into Reno like slow water into a bowl
and the Common App was released;
my friend and I were up at midnight four states across,
The towns are so lonely no one can drive by
the people leave slowly not saying goodbye
Love, hope, and peace are replaced with war
It's been forever,
Since we first came together,
On that midnight in December,
When the first snow began to fall.
But it's been forever,
In that time together,
That you opened my eyes,
What would I change if I could change the world?
Just one thing to make it better...
I would change the heart.
The heart of every person to ever exist would be full of love
Pay for the books,
The seat that I'm sitting in.
Pay for the lights, the water,
The air I breathe.
The accounts are emptying, but my head is filling.
I wanted a degree, and a job.
if i could change one thing, i would release the stigma on mental illness
like a goddamn balloon into the sky,
popping when it gets too high in the atmosphere,
never to be seen again.
Day to day we’re always told that we need to be
the utmost best we can be; to shine brighter than
the last and burn with more intensity. Flames
blazing and creeping up the walls. Any higher
If I could kiss every malady from the cells on your heart
And the neurons in your brains
Then my mouth would turn red and bloody raw
Because I would not stop until all were healed.
Discrimination exists in practically every society. Based on physical characteristics, such as skin and hair color, maybe even the shapes of a person's eyes, a person is judged.
For those who don't know what it looks like:
DOMA
Prop 8
The Westboro Baptist Church
Gay Bashing (I would know it's bad, because of personal experience)
HIV/AIDS stigma
LGBT suicide
There is a pile of beer bottles in the back of the room.
When he stresses over her, he drinks.
When he gets mad, he beats.
When things dont go his way, the beating and drinking is combined.
The bruises remain.
In this day and age
Things all seem like they're going to crap.
Fires and poverty and war and death.
Hell on earth and pain come to life,
Like our eyes have been opened to what things can really be.
I've been asked to change one thing.
Big or small, that's quite the task!
Just to find what change to bring
I must know just what to ask.
The first choice would be for me
to make my own life better.
Here in the part of Thailand that we live
Survival is hard
No money
Scarce food source
Death all around
Sister, I see the world you will grow up in/ I see the world I'm surviving in/ And I see the slow spiral down/ Sister, I see the wars and the strife/ I see the chemicals filling the lungs/ Of mothers who won't live to see unborn children/ Sister,
They wanna cock the glock and pistol wave to rep the block but now we got to stop the clock before another round pops and your blood becomes mud as it leakes onto the floor while the
When considering a way to positively impact the world, the possible changes seem endless.If I had the power to make such a change, I believe I would decide on one particular thing.
Cold
Silent
Alone
These words are the only
Only way to describe how it feels
Now that you're gone.
You can't see it
You can't hear it
You can't feel it
but
The problem with America, is wrong people are in the lead. Our government is corrupt with an exsessive amount of greed.There are children dying, there are parents crying, and all you can see is corporate sighing?
If I could change
One thing
About the world today
In all its hurt, in all its pain
In everything not going our way
Is a smile
On every face
One that would never change
What would I change?
what would you?
You want world peace?
Maybe end world hunger?
I want to put an end to another issue.
I want people to put down the guns,
i want cities to stop spending money on
I can’t look at you
You’re not the same person
You feel my eyes shooting daggers
And my mouth spitting lies
The variation of transformation needs to be distorted.
I hate to report it.. but I can name so many things that needs new change and innovation.
Let us break the direction where things are headed, and mend it
If I had the power to go and change anything in the world today it would have to be bullying.
I spent four of my years in a building
Of wood walls and cement floors
I spent four of my years in a building
Told it was wrong to want out
I spent four of my years stuck in two dimensions
Beauty fades;
it's inevitable.
Our bodies are our shells
like eggs they crack, they decay.
But the inside is what nourishes us,
mixes together with other human ingredients
"You bitch, slut, freak, weirdo"
We here these words float down our hallways and out into the breeze.
So common in our daily lives that we no longer flinch from their stinging touch.
A twinge in his gut
A shiver on his skin
Every hair on the back of his neck stood on end
A whole new kind of invisible, to see beyond today into tomorrow
Vision misting
Paint the grey we live in;That’s my decree.Our world is more than the cradle of sin-No more Greed or Sloth we should see.Instead mix the weeping Blue with passion RedOr add White for a pure Pink.
I would change the way that humans think
I would completely rewire our brains
Because people get mad at the stupidest things
First there would be no anti-gay hate
Self Centered
I'd change
My ability to deal with
the face in the mirror
the thoughts simmering behind it
the fumbling half-formed passions
waiting to be found.
What would I give to change the world
To make it a better place?
Shall I sing a song
And pass it along?
Hoping to make someone’s day.
Should I be rid of all the poison
If I could change the course of someone's day
By the upturning of my lips into a smile
Drastically reshape the art of one's opinion of self
By a small act of kindness
Wow!
How about a warm 'hello'
She shut herself away
Crying silently
Alone
I take a paper cutout
And draw a smile on her face
The two sides of myself.
I see through the looking glassA lot like Alice didBut I don't see what she didI see painI see sufferingI don't want to see moreBut I doEverydayMore people cry in hungerIn pain
Gather round young and old I have a story that needs to be told, this story can still be heard round the nation.
