performance writing

I walk down the hallway

And see all these faces

None of which read the same thing

Some seem complicated

Even full of anxiety

Others tired of this ridden society

Each face masks an unheard originality

Love and lust

Hate and tiredness

Compromise the world of a teenager

All feel disconnected

None the same

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Today I realized that it wasn't just us in the world,

That everything is so much bigger, bigger than it seems,

I don't know if I can handle it. 

I think I thought everything was going to be easy

and that things would just fall into place,

but they won't, they never will.

Today I realized that people choose popularity over happiness

You did, didn't you?

and left me here in the dust, in your tracks?

They did, didn't they?

and went off riding in the sunset with me yelling for them to wait up.

Today I realized that everything is not as it seem.

You decieved me and my trust,

and used me for what I had, and what I was going to become.

You made me think that I was special, but didn't believe it yourself.

Today I realized that I should always have my guard up,

I should shield myself from the pain that everyone causes me,

because it's just too hard,

everyday is a battle, everyday is a struggle, and to make it thorough I have to put up defenses.

I should keep my heart and soul locked up away from prying eyes, and away from people who want to damage them.

Today I learned about real life

You have those people that are cruel,

The one's that hurt you and make you feel small,

and the one's that laugh along with them and ignore you and the comment

You have the people who look at you like they're so much better,

like they have authority,

As though they are the teacher and you are a C- Student. Read more »

I just want to stop existing.

     I just want to stay here with you forever.

I just want to stop breathing

     I just wanted you to know that you're the sweetest oxygen I've ever breathed in.

I just want to slice my arms off

     I wish I had more arms to hug you with.

I just want to make someone hurt like I do.

     I just want to help someone else to be as happy as I am.

I just want to dissapear.

     I wish I could be with you more.

I hate everything.

     I love my life.

I just want to die.

     You're my life, and I love you.

I wish someone understood my pain.

     I'm glad you're here to share in my joy.

I don't want to be hurt any more.

     I'm unfathomably happy.

I'm crying my eyes out.

     I'm smiling so hard it hurts.

I'm done with everything.

     There's still so much more left to explore!

I just want someone to save me.

     I just want you to know how much you mean to me.

I just want to let you know that I'll get through, somehow.

     I just want to let you know that I'm feeling grand.

      After an exasperating three hour drive, my family finally arrives in Wells, Maine.

All of our family reunions have always happened here in this four story, faded white, house on Wells Beach.  They probably always will. Read more »

Three wishes is not only about our needs,

is also about your dreams,

is something your really want

from the buttom of your heart.

Whis one: I wish to my siblings and I

graduate from college

with flying colors. 

Wish 2: I wish to everyone 

live united with their family.

Last and 3rd wish: I wish the violence

and wars are eliminated 

from the whole world. 

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I was falling. I was at 100 feet, then 50 ft., then 25 ft, then Before I knew it, I crashed really hard on the surface of the water. I came back up, I tried to catch my breath. But I couldn't. All my breath my was squeezed out of me. I was scared. I was splashing around looking for the shore. But there wasn't any. I was starting to lose consciousness, and that would be really bad because I was in the middle of the ocean and if I lost consciousness, which most likely I would drown. I was swimming to god knows where trying to find land or an island. It felt like I was swimming for miles when I finally Thought I saw either an island or a town or something like that. So of course I started swimming towards it. When I finally reached I saw that I was wrong it wasn't land or island it wasn't anything it was just a rock jutting up out of the water. I was just about to lose consciousness when I woke up from my dream and then it was finally over.

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Are you ever ashamed,

To call yourself a human being?

Look what we do,

Look what we have the capability of doing.

We take away others lives with out actions and words

and often feel no regret,

because the blame is always on someone else,

Right?

We abuse our privilages, and push boundaries.

Look at some of us,

the train wreck of they're life

using illegal substances because they're "fun,"

This opportunity you've been given,

to live free, and do what ever you'd like to do,

don't waste it.

Don't be one of those people who tries to be cool,

on anothers expense, maybe even they're life.

When you could be kind,

and offer a helping hand.

Everyday someone hurts, and someone cries,

we can stop those cries and heal the hurt,

with one act of kindness

So lets not be the worst form of ourselves to get ahead

and as a whole, let us come together and give a helping hand to those who need one.

                                     I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13)

                                                                              By dani Avila

                                                        What is the basis of our happiness?

                                        If depends on our circumstances, we all have problems

                                             Because, sooner or later we will be in trouble.

         Paul said he had discovered the secret to live above the circumstances that life brings. His secret was Jesus Christ.

          Jesus was their security that despite the problems, I was not alone. No matter how hard they put on their circumstances, Read more »

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At some points of the life, things have been very tough to you. You feel a lot of pain. You cry and cry. At the beginning, the unique thing you want is get out of situations like that. After being dealing with problems, every time the pain is less because you suppose to dealt with the pain. The faith that you have in yourself to overcome any obstacle is very important to be a strong person.

The girl held her book in her hand and whispered it's story to the tree that she was leaning on. The tree cradled her and it's branches moved with the wind as it saying, go on. The girl whistled at the birds as she put birdfood out in the small feeder near her house, the birds chirped back and responded saying, aye aye, captain.The small child was so innocent and pure, and naieve. When she grew up she began to understand, and know, and learn more, and more, and more, and that broke her. That day the tree's cried, and the birds didn't chirp, but wallowed in they're small nests where there would not be food enough to feed they're babies. Ignorance is bliss, nature cried to her, but she was too far gone to hear.

 A girl was sitting on a bench with her pencil in hand writing lyrics to songs that she had been working on. Her blonde hair flowed down her back and her shirt and flip flops were pink and her shorts were a dull green. She sat there and she was so focused on her song that she didn't see that to her side an old man had sat down next to her.

"Ha! finished. Too bad nobody can sing it."

"Finished with what?"

"Oh! sorry I didn't see you there. I finished my song that I had been writing for a couple of weeks now."

She was not very fond of this old man he smelt of rotten fish. He had also sat down next to her without a sound and he had never coughed or anything to show that he was there. He had not even asked to sit there, He had no manners at all. She may have been poor but she was always so polite to the elders and everyone. He must have been so old that he forgot them.

"Sorry where are my manners, my name is Jack. May I sit here? Oh! Sorry I must smell like rotten fish right now. I work at a sushi shop down the road and I forgot to take a shower before I came here."

"My name is Annie and thats quite alright."

"Wow it was like he was reading my mind!"

"So can you sing a song for me?'

"Oh, I can't sing."

At that second my cheeks turned red and then purple and then red again.

"I know you can sing."

"I think I know if I can sing or not."

"Try singing a line atleast."

"NO I CAN'T SING EVEN IF MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT AND WHO ARE YOU TO TELL ME THAT I CAN SING WHEN I CAN'T." Read more »

I was playing Chess in the park the other day. One man I played said that he had never lost in a game of Chess and he bet me ten dollars he could beat me. I agreed and pulled and my wallet and placed ten dollars down on the table. It looked like he knew what he was doing from the start, but turns out he didn’t even know what way to move his pawn. He lost terribly and said that he let me win.
“Double or nothing”, he said.
“Alright”, I added
In no time I beat him and he stormed off thirty dollars short. I was feeling good and  I thought that I was unstoppable. I played a few other guys for money and I was up to seventy dollars when I noticed an older man had been watching me play the whole time. He came over to me and sat down across from me and asked if I would like to play. I told him that I would go easy on him but I had no problem beating old people. The game lasted about five minutes when he finally beat me.
“Again?”, he asked. Read more »

Hands clenched, jaw locked, eyes about to burst. Confusion, worry, regret; they all swirl around and around, faster and faster, a pinwheel of terror in your head. With each blink, the world becomes clearer, then fuzzier and fuzzier, until you can’t make out specific shapes, but just a mosaic of mixed colors until suddenly the world clears itself, as a trickle of sorrow, lost love, and remorse tenderly rolls down a red cheek. Now stop. This is a moment in time you will not forget for a while. This is an important moment in your life – a time where you must learn from your own decisions or from inevitable happenings of the cruel reality of life. Whatever has just happened to you will change your life forever. At this moment, a part of you, one you may have never known, will open up. Understanding, knowledge, wisdom, and other aspects of you will strengthen from this time of change. That’s exactly what it is – sorrow is a time of change. A time where reality abruptly slaps you in the face to get you focused on the bigger picture. A time where new discoveries of others and yourself are made. This trial was put in your life to change you for the better. However, the future change will come soon enough, so for now, let it all go. That is the best ibuprofen there is in the immediate times of sorrow.

UPS!!!!!

By

Matthew Baldwin

One rainy day. I heard a yell, UPS. I when outside and saw a UPS guy. He gave me a parcel. I went inside. There was a note on the front.

HANDEL

WITH

CARE!!!!!!

Immediately I opened the parcel. The was another note.

I THOUGHT

YOU WOULD

LIKE THIS

SIGHNED

YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD UPS GUY

I saw the biggest lego set in the world. I thanked the UPS guy and went back inside. Then I thought to myself how am I going to build this set?

Have you ever felt

Like silence is too loud?

On a winter night with a blanket of snow laying on the ground, 

Waiting for nothing,

The silence rings in your ears,

Hurting you,

Screaming for you to listen to it's song

But when you listen,

There's nothing there.

Ok so it was the day that the people of district 13 would never forget when I blew up the capitol and blew out my eardrum I couldn't hear anything the whole world was silent and everyone was screaming of what I had done. But I didn't do it for the publicity I did it to make the capitol remember the name Katniss everdeen the girl on fire. It's September me and my family are living in district 13 now since the capitol blew up districts and burned 12 down to ashes. When I first saw the ashes and walked on my friends graveyards the whole world was just ashes. Ashes of the dead, ashes of my home. The world was as black as the fires ashes. Ever since the capitol hijacked Peeta I've wanted revenge and I will soon get it even though it means that I will risk the lives of those I love I will do everything I can to keep them safe. I've trained, reassembled guns and had to pass three exams and obstacle courses. Even though my world is nothing of ashes now I've kept fighting to keep the world alive. They bombed the hospital in 2. Burned 12 and now I'm going to bomb the capitol to ashes. Kill every last life inside the capitol including snow, I'm going to kill snow if it's the last thing I'll do.- This has been Katniss everdeen 

When ever something seems happy or beautiful

it almost seems too happy, or too beautiful

and you start to question it.

and if something stays beautiful for to long

without any obstacles to over come,

without any lessons to learn

then your just stuck 

traveling on a road without speed bumps,

which guide you through your journey

and once you travel that road for too long

you forget where your going, because those little markers in the track

that you need to remember your way, are gone

and the road is never ending

because you never get to your real destination

your stuck in a land of too's and amazing's and perfect's

and to be stuck there is selfish

to the one person's that matters the most...

yourself

I could be really angry

Scared, lonely, anxious or sad

But when I see your face, my dear,

I don't feel so bad

You relieve me from all pain

From small to large amounts

Because when I'm with you

It's the happiness that counts

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                                                                                     I LIKE

 I like fishing because it gets you together with some of your friends and some family members. Its a place where you can just relax and forget about people who make you mad and its a place where you don’t have to worry about working. That’s why I love fishing.

I like hunting because when you're in the woods and you see a deer you get such an adrenalin rush its not even funny. It's a place where memories are made and it's also time to show off what you have learned from people in the past. Even if you don’t shoot a deer, it's still fun to go out in the woods. I've been hunting three years and have shot two deer. One of my family members has been hunting for 37 years and never shot a deer. He's seen them, passed on them, shot at them but never hit them and even lost one. He has even said to me that he won't shoot a buck until I do. That’s why I like hunting.

                                                                                     I LIKE

 I like fishing because it gets you together with some of your friends and some family members. Its a place where you can just relax and forget about people who make you mad and its a place where you don’t have to worry about working. That’s why I love fishing.

I like hunting because when you're in the woods and you see a deer you get such an adrenalin rush its not even funny. It's a place where memories are made and it's also time to show off what you have learned from people in the past. Even if you don’t shoot a deer, it's still fun to go out in the woods. I've been hunting three years and have shot two deer. One of my family members has been hunting for 37 years and never shot a deer. He's seen them, passed on them, shot at them but never hit them and even lost one. He has even said to me that he won't shoot a buck until I do. That’s why I like hunting.

A fight, a struggle of power and things

of harsh words and blows that very much sting

of soft whispers and laughs that you think you hear in your head

of looks that you don't usually get

You said something wrong,

you fell out of place

your left in the dirt

left in disgrace

can no one come and save you now

would anyone even really know how?

A stuggle that never really ends 

that keeps going on and never REALLY ends

no one really makes amends

there's just you left alone

left alone, with just yourself to fend...

When I was walking out in the halls I look down quiet the world around me and looked back up and I went into my happy place where my best friend said " Hi " to me I was the happiest person in the world even though she just said " Hi " it made my day just having her say " Hi " I was so happy to see her because I never see her ever. 

I can only be the girl who tries her best

even if that doesn't make an A+ on the test

I can only be the girl that follows along

even if that doesn't get the lead in the song

I can only be the girl who says her dreams

even if that gets me ripped down at the seams

I can only be the girl who writes what she feels

even if this isn't read it's still real

I can only be the girl who has an oppinions

even if no crap is given 

I can only be the girl who gets really sad

even if I only show it, by getting really mad

I can only be the girl who compares to much

even if it makes me depressed and gives my back a hunch

I can only be the girl who's quirky, not cool

even if that makes me less popular in school.

You take the scissors in your hand, ready to clip off my locks

I brace myself, ready to experience pain

I've never trusted your kind

You tell me that my hair will look wonderful,

That everyone will woo at it

Sometimes I even pretend that will be the case...

But it's never true,

No matter how many different places I  try

no matter how expensive the haircut runs

every time I come out of your doors looking rediculous

I was fine with my previous hair style, long and sleek,

but then you came along and chopped at it, and cut me down, you cut my pride down when you cut my hair.

I go to school with my head down

I come home with my head down

My friends say, "It's only hair! It will grow back" 

but they don't understand

It takes years for my hair to grow an inch, years!

I sadly stare at this screen trying to twirl my hair in dismay

but, alas, I cannot for my hair is too short, 

I grumble at my mother who yet again forced me to get a hircut

Why can't my hair look good after an appointment, why?

This piece is basically fictional, I picked up at topic and just ran with it

Kindness is here, there, and everywhere. Kindness is anytime you help someone
out, stick up for someone, or simply just give a compliment. Kindness
makes me feel nice, and like I did the right thing. When you play the
role of kindness, it is like putting a smile on someone’s face and
brightening up their day. The person realizes you’re kind when you give
kindness, and will consider being kind to you too.

Don't bother talking to me 

or even looking at me 

 what you did crushed me 

you turned against me 

violated me, hurt me and my friends relationship 

you made me so mad 

just don't bother anymore 

I will never trust you again

I will never come back 

I am stronger without you