Leland & Gray Union High School

Walking away is sometimes the hardest thing to do
But this is the last time I’m saying goodbye to you
For all the things that you have put me through
I wonder why I ever stayed with you
When someone told me that I deserved more
I always turned my head and walked out the door
Always making excuses for the things you said
Always protecting you for things that you did
Your life is a figure of your own imagination
And you have all the intentions to stay
The things you don’t want to face
You don’t think about and blow them away
You say you want to be happy
But you’re too lazy to change
You’re too young to give up
But you’re too old to be playing these games
You manipulate to get what you want
You lie to get your own way
And you wonder how anyone can care about you
The reason is because of you
You are the reason no one cares about you
Either change
Or stop complaining
It’s all up too you, but soon its going to be too late

Silver, not gray

By Krista Gay
Leland and Gray Union High School, Grade 9

For twenty-five years my hair has been this color
Some call it gray, an annoying factor that shows my real age
All the girls my age in town dye it back to their original color
Red, orange, blond or brown
Hoping that the color of the strands in the hair
Will help hide the wrinkles and make them look young
So that they can go back to a different time
No, not me, I don’t want to go back
My hair is a trophy for everyone to see
A trophy of triumph throughout my life

This me with the silver hair has gotten through times
Myself with blond hair could never have
I’ve survived four wars with this silver
While my blond hair only survived one
Every time I look in the mirror it reminds me silently
Of how much I’ve been through an achieved

They say wisdom comes with age
And wisdom with beauty
I remember when my husband and I first married
Before he went to go fight overseas

Silent Kindness

By Krista Gay
Leland and Gray Union High School, Grade 9

I sat at the table way in the back of the library
For the first time in my life, I was silent
With salty tears running down my face
As my mind replayed against my will
The images of the laughs, the jokes and the words
That had been thrown at me moments ago like stones and shredded glass

Do I have super powers
I'll never know
but in the day time
when I feel a pull
I know it's my time to glow
poeple look up to me
when I stand tall
but turn away when I go wrong
the little ones faces say it all
in these time's
when I feel so tall
my super powers shine

In the wintery days
we slip and slide
playing in our childish ways
we glow with pride
as we go through a phase
in these wintery days
slipping and sliding
jumping and gliding
waiting for santa claus
now its time for bed
so we can get ahead