Youth Submitted Poems

Scared

By April Fana

Everyone’s scared to walk out the street

They are all sared of who they gonna meet

They are all scared of what is gonna happen next

No one want to be in school, they just want to text.

The violence in this city is gonna end humanity

Everyone’s taken over by this feeling of insanity.

Everyday you hear in the news someone’s getting shot,

People getting hurt all because of what they got.

Well what I’m trying to say is the violence needs to stop

Before someone else stole what they bought.

Peace and Violence

By Brittany Emerson

Grade 11 Lynn Classical High School

Violence is everywhere.

You can’t speak out ‘because no one hears and no one cares.

If we speak from our hearts and our souls

Maybe people will listen to what we want to say about violence.

If we fight for our rights, I just know we can find the light.

I think if we all hear what people have to say about violence

I know that we can stop it.

Right here, right now.

It’s time to end the violence and live in a peaceful world.

David Gray

School: Marshall

Error – Wrong Move

One day the world will break

for all the men talking about all the girls he raped.

Proud for all the lives he’ll take.

Not caring for all the lives he took

proud to be a crook

writing this down in a book

Trying to add more to his collection

hurting is his game and he wants to do it ‘til perfection.

Only time thinking about correction

when he makes a mistake and thinks he would get caught.

and says “Nope, that’s just a thought.”

Until one time he fought.

Someone called the cops.

He thought he wasn’t seen by the cop,

so he ran to his spot.

Shut the door and it locked.

Then he heard a knock

and with all the quiet, he felt dead like a rock.

Quick trying to find some place to hide

but he wont blend in. Besides

all the other bodies are dead. He’s still alive.

Cops kicking the door down until it drop.

He screamed “Don’t move!” They couldn’t ‘cause they were in shock.

They saw too many bloody bodies in one spot.

They saw the suspect with a gun

to his head and he said “All or none.

Game over .I won”.

Now that all this mischief is done,

he’s dead and not yet to come.

A point to prove he is dead and he loose

If they talk,

be the bigger man and walk

It’s your attitude. Pick it up before it drops.

Jacob Fernandez

Lynn English High School

Truth to end the Violence

He wakes up to see
the world dead.
Maybe one day a
person will stand
up to the streets
who knows right from wrong.
I do see a lot in my time
from drugs to guns.
People who lose control
of their lives
only to suffer in the end.
Now I won’t let the
future of the city go down.
Adults need to take a stand
or we as young adults
will enter the wrong path
in our lifetime.
Adults, pick which path you
want from us
death or a successful life.
I pick a successful life.

Manuela Rosa
Breed Middle School – Grade 7

Only a mother of a child can save his or her soul from violence

Once an incident walks down the path of violence, his or her soul is stained with the pain of others leaving only sorrow and agony in a mother’s heart and the only words to say are…

Violence only brings anger and agony to people in the world that are hurt or dead

This world would be a much better place without violence everyone would be happy and there would not be any more sorrow and pain

We would all see the day when nobody dies wrongfully

Until that day comes, I will capture all the joy of life that surrounds me!