They gave me a ticket
number One-Million-Thirteen
behind the little girl who has
lost both of her parents in a fire
says she saw them both die before her eyes
the last word her mother said was
her name
in a fading whisper
solitarily witnessed as reality slowly
crumbled, m e m o r i e s evaporated into clouds of
smoke
POOF,
what she used to have
doesnt exist
isnt there
impossible
to
retri-eve

two soul's down from
Andrew and Matt
both lovers afraid to
return back their home which is now
vandalised with discrimination and death threats
"Go Kill yourself" painted across their wooden door
windows shattered,cracks symbolize the
bloody,bruised fists of hate that
clashed upon its surface
home
sweet
home?
petrified from the thought of returning to a world where
identity is the number one target spot
and exposing who you truly are can
earn you a bullet or two
you find yourself fighting an everlasting battle
against "them"
constantly being wounded by the bullets that
life shoots in your
direction

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standing in front of a homeless guy who
has been.is still.ostracized by society
thrown off the ledge of life because they said that he
wasnt fit for it

beside him is a child with a disability
lost in a world
with people who refuse to guide him yet
they can trip him and laugh as he crashes into a
another brick wall of struggles
silently watches as he stumbles on an uneasy road
[hopless?not quite]

a child blind
since the day of his birth
yet he is blessed with
perfect vision because he is able to
paint a picture on his mental canvas
envision what the world
would look like if he could see it however this picture is far
from what the world is now
------

a boy who has already been
marked as a 'juvenile delinquent'
he holds his knowledge
in the palms of his hands
grasps tight and never lets
go
[no one seems to be able to build their own
identity anymore...]
there's a kid who's marked "uneducated" because he
jots down raps instead of school notes in his
composition book
can imitate any def jam poet-ry performance
and memorize any stanza langhston hughes wrote yet
his grades doesn't reflect the intelligence he witholds
ran away from home because his parents told him
that he wasnt worth anything
his dream is to prove to them that
he is
-------
a teenager who
has been abused by what appears to be her mother's
Soul mate.Destiny.Perfectmatch.Completion.Otherhalf.
her mother say's he's heaven sent
but in her dreams he kidnaps her and keeps her
hostage in hell's basement
ran away from home because
her mother was blinded by the
rays of l-o-v-e
saw nothing but his eyes and felt nothing but his
insincere kiss.. her daughter's whispers were mute
she no longer saw her presence
or heard her footsteps trailing away from home

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ahead i see another EMOtional soul,
using the pencil as their suicidal weapon
constantly slitting lead through
the layers of the page
her heart no longer bleeds but drowns with her as the
emotions release

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1,000 souls in front of me i see my
Mother
who just wants our family to come back together
in her hands,she holds a picture of Grandma and
Grandpa,
in the other,
a rose for Auntie,
and an empty star with my name
engraved on the front
-----
she has a dream,
they have a dream,
WE have a dream that seems to
drift away
the farther we
reach
for
it,
reality will only determine if this possible
or impossible to come true
all waiting in line for that one
chance to finally come
face to face
with dreams itself and
find out where in life it will
lead us
if they will abandon us
or continue to let us
hold on
to them