Naugatuck High School
Naugatuck, CT
Sorrow
   by Samantha
 
Sorrow,
the pit in your stomach,
walk alone down the path;
Gray sky,
gray clouds,
let drops of rain fall
around you.
Mugginess in the air,
all you feel is cold.
Surrounds you,
engulfs you,
takes you prisoner.
Never seems to ease,
continues to grow.
Surrounded by roses,
all you feel are thorns.
A caged bird,
singing its sad songs,
longing to be free,
in the open sky.
A coma,
breathing still,
but life just passes by.
 
Numbers
   by Samantha
 
The number five, to you does it matter?
When you have but five days to live, your whole world seems to shatter.
The cancer is spreading, and your body gets weak,
the whole world just seems so dull, and so bleak.
To you, it's just a number, but to me, it is fate,
and all I can do is just sit here and wait.
I had a whole life ahead of me, one that's carefully planned.
But all that changed; my body they scanned.
One little tumor, to a catastrophical size it had grown.
Now, I see the Grim Reaper; my body he will soon own.
What would you do if you had run out of time?
Would you fix up your messes? Get your problems in line?
I am sitting, for death I wait.
To you, it's just a number, but to me it is fate
Why Not
   by Edward
(when i wrote this poem, i was watching american idol and there was this thing on aids and how people were dieing from it. so i wrote a poem to try and help)
 
People die from it
you fear it
they fear it
so why not do something about it
you here about it
you learn about it
so why not so something
 
you wonder why
you wonder how
how can we stop this
how can we help this
 
most people give up
most act like it is not there
reality is
it's there
it's everywhere
so why not do something about it.
 
Make Dreams Happen
   by Edward
(i wrote this because i was thinking about what i wanted to do when i'm older and that people get told what to do even if it's not their dream or goal in life.  i thought if people read this, maybe they would not let that happen)
 
If you can be anybody
who would you be
if you can do anything
what would you do
people think that they have to do something
because someone tells them to
 
the truth is
you can be what you want
put your heart to it
let your mind explore
it will happen
only if you want it
you have to work for it
but it will come
Sorrow
   by Victoria 
 
sorrow is
waking up after the
death of a loved one.
 
it feels like emptiness
of a man's stomach
no money for food.
 
it happens after
flawless days
bring you back to earth.
 
it tastes like
jiggily jello
sitting on the counter.
 
color of blue
washed out from
your favorite pair of jeans.
 
the weeping willow
shedding the flowers
from the season.
 
the chipmunk

sleuthing for food

winter's start.
 
Sorrow...

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