Pursuit of Perfect Do not give me only perfect For there is beauty in what lacks, The things that are most true Are filled with flaws, covered in cracks. So stumble on your sentences, Forget the...

It’s like our lives are post and future, And the point at which they meet Is the line that we must walk To keep the present at our feet. And as long as you stay balanced You will learn that all...

You’ve got your stories pressed like flowers On notebook pages to be preserves, As though the right for you to share them Has been as yet undeserved. Or perhaps it’s something primal To simply...

“So I let her go, For it was unfair for me to keep her. It was the hardest thing I’d ever done, But I knew it was right. She was a bird, I had caged, That had forgotten how to fly, But dreamed...

If you want to catch a dream That lifts you high above the ground You must break free of the things That are intent to hold you down. Because the secret to success, The only way to ever grow, Is...

By: Sierrah Smalls, Damani Piper, Shakoyah Brown, Keana DuBose, Keshawna Alderman, and Tage Dasrat Sometimes strength is accepting defeat Resurrecting your body from the dead Defeat is not an ending...

2:36 AM 2 am is for the poets who can’t sleep because their minds are alive with words for someone who’s not there. For the alcoholics drinking themselves into amnesia to forget someone...

What if I read to you a story, Starting ; “Once Upon A Time”, And you realized that it was your life, Spelt out on every line, Would you hear my voice with wonder, As it brushed across each word, And...

“Breathe In” Tell me now, how is it fair? Our lives are just a gasp for air, That stars barely have a chance to blink Before into the earth we sink. Why must we race to fall apart For time...

“From Up Above” And she wakes you every morning With golden pink hands And she kisses you goodnight With her beautiful moonlit dance And She whispers in your ear, when the wind decides to...

“Petals and Promises” She was the summer’s last sunflower, Writing a letter to July, As though one final correspondence, Would make an easier goodbye, But already she could feel them, The...

“May the sea” May the sea Set you free. May the breeze Keep you at ease. May the sky Help you fly. May the sand Guide you to land. May the shore Offer you more. May the beach Love you...

Untitled For if I could be like anyone, I would like to be like you. For you are fair, loving and kind, And I’d like to be those too. -M.M.J

Underneath I am my smile, When I don’t care. I am my skin, When it is bare. I am my heart, At every beat. I am everything that I choose to be. I am my haircut And my freshly painted nails. I...