Poem by Mohammed Seid

I remember the only way people expressed them selves was by mimes now the most common things are crimes. When the sweetest thing you had turns to sour like lime, and life gets hard so the only thing in your mind is how do I get through this hard times. Crime rates goes up and people getting time. But the bad thing about it is you just lost your job and on top of that your brother just got shot. In the same week your mom get cancer now you looking up and asking god ‘’y me and can you please give me an answer’’. So to me I think education is the only way to change the world.With out education you’re basically getting pushed to join gangs, crime and do drugs and all the negative things you wouldn’t do if you had been educated.

Creative Writing Contest

We are sponsoring this contest with the Rhyme Lab from Rocketown, Oasis Center, and Our Music City. We are looking for students to submit poetry, music lyrics, or any other form of creative writing that will tell us how you want to CHANGE THE WORLD! Submit for a chance to win Ipods, Mp3 players, PS3's, and more! Comment on this blog tell us how you would change your world!!

A Land of Sin

A world colored in only black and blue,

That delivered a life of destruction.

None of the world offered even a clue,

All just sat down with utter confusion.



Only God could deliver such just love,

Which sings to us a gentle hushabye.

A bird to which none could see, a white dove

Soars over the confused world ever so high.



Conspiring against the dove was reason

For all that had happened to Land of Sin ,

Full of all those labeled as heathen

That never believed in a lovely win.



Black and blue world that will never see light,

Everyone just sat and stared with cruel fright.

Unfamiliar Faces

A sadden girl sits silently alone in her room
As she stares into countless photos of unfamiliar faces
She feels as if she should know these people in the frames
She doesn't recall any memories of these strangers she sees
No distinct traits can she find about the people in the photos
Nor does she recall any of the places that are in the pictures in her hands
She wonders why she even has the photos if their filled with unfamiliar faces
She stares and stares and then she stares some more
And still no memories of the unfamiliar faces

This girl who is all alone once had a family
A happy family who shared good times together and bad times too
The girl's family is parished and gone now and it's been quite some time
She's the only one left and her memories have faded away
Will the girl ever realize that the unfamiliar faces in her pictures were once the people she called family

My Heart is Guarded

Chained and locked up without a key
My heart is guarded, guarded from love

Protected from pain and misery
My heart is guarded, guarded from love

Never again will it be shattered into pieces
My heart is guarded, guarded from love

Never again will my heart be beaten
My heart is guarded, guarded from love

It's been through rehab and now it's stable
My heart is guarded, guarded from love

I refuse to fall in love again, I'm simply not able
My heart is guarded, guarded from love

Not lettin' anyone in this time
My heart is guarded, guarded from love

Love made me selfish, my heart is all mine
My heart is guarded, guarded from love

Lost by Sabrina Horton

Caught up in this thing called life
Contemplatin' on the if's and why's
Wonderin' if I'll be able to choose the right path
or will I make a wrong turn and be lost forever

Feelin insecure and constantly second-guessing myself
Afraid of the unknown, don't wanna know about it
A million and one thoughts send my mind on a rollercoaster
ride and I'm just ready to get off

Hesitant about takin' chances
Not to fond of change
Feelin' alone and I just want to escape and wake up from
this nightmare of mine

Still trying to figure out who I really am
In my mind, it's chaotic there I just want to live in ease
I'm so lost within my ownself and I don't need to be rescued
because I am the only one who can save me

Was I never good enough? by Shelby Carter

So tell me, was I never good enough?
did I hold my head to high, proud of who I was & where I was headed?
Or did I poise myself with class, & in your eyes, this trait was dreaded?
So tell me, was I never good enough?
Because I wouldn't argue, I'd just leave it alone
for childish was not a title I wanted to own.
So tell me, was I never good enough?
My intellect was just a little too high
& you were used to having someone with that hustle of "just getting by"
So tell me, was I never good enough?
because my priorties couldn't be broken & my mind was always focused.
& everytime there was an obstacle it could never tear down the both of us.
So tell me, was I never good enough?
Since I was independent and handled my business
& you would cringe everytime you heard "Miss independent"
So tell me, was I never good enough?
Because your standards were set low & my essence was prestige
so you settled for less, letting that other opportunity free.
So tell me, was I never good enough?
Because even through the storm, my smile still shined
& I would always say, "You're not worth the tears that I cry."
So tell me, did that make me unworthy? Did that make you leave?
Because if it did, I want you to know, I am not the one who faced that defeat.
So tell me, did I meet your criteria, was I ever good enough to be your daughter?
& if not, then tell me how you feel now, because you do NOT meet the required criteria to be my father.
Tell me what I ever did to you, for you to treat with such neglect
when all I ever had shown for you was loyalty & respect.
Tell me who waited every saturday, morning until night
just to see if that familar car would somehow come into sight.
Tell me who sits here, and writes all this sh**, for you to probably never read?
only to sit back and cry, because I never thought for your love, I'd have to plead.
So tell me now daddy, am I unworthy, after seventeen years..
did it even hurt your heart to see my eyes full of tears?
Tell me why! Why was there never a spot in your heart for me, your child?
& why do you draw a blank with my name, in your mind shouldn't it be filed?
Tell me daddy.. what is it that I can do to just have your love..to feel like I belong..
Because believe me daddy, thats all I've desired all along.
So tell me, was I never good enough?
Just me, being myself, born into the situation that never got resloved
& growing up simply feeling as if it was my fault...