"Catch 22" by Jovani Fox
9 planets revolve around the sun
1 life to live in infinite perspectives
22 reasons for conclusiveness
365 years my people were prisoners, slaves
17 years I've been a P.O.W. in my endless misconception and deceitful ways,
all only to find who I am.
5 bad relationships
1 broken heart
and just now I am learning from my mistakes
22 reasons why I died mentally on the inside
pulling an invisible trigger,
killing myself piece by piece
1 person who stares back at me in the mirror
2 children in my future I wait to see, love
and teach right from wrong.
8 fractured bones
12 scars on my legs from running with da boys
22 reasons to laugh and hate my scarred up childhood
500 strokes to finish the race
2,000 meters from the start to finish
22 reasons to endure the inevitable
9 planets revolve around the sun
1 life to live in infinite perspectives
22 reasons why I dropped 22 stones but picked up
22 more.
The world is destruction
Can you look in the eyes
Of an American eagle for justice?
What is the cause of conflict
Issues that can't be resolved without using the force of
Violence?
A human mind seeks out for the
Definition of the word unity. A word that
Was born through the eyes of Martin Luther King,
Who believed all in one (equality).
What is a world of violence?
If there's no war how can
There be peace?
Is it possible that our countries
Can rely on peace?
Peace is a garden of unity
A unity of us creating a world to new era.
If there is no war how can
There be peace!!!
Peace!!!
Peace!!!
We'll just have to wait
And see as we breathe.
By Victor Brandao
I am not
Racist
I am not
Ignorant to the fact that people
Are losing homes in Baghdad
I am not
For this war thing
I am not what the government
Is trying to make me
I am not
Rude, ignorant or stupid.
Yes, I am a young Black teenage female
But no I am not pregnant
No I am not always chasing after boys.
But yes I do still play and hang with my family
Yes I do hang with my friends
But I am not my friends so whatever they do
No I am not a follower
Yes I am independent
So I am not the person you think when you see me
In the streets or in the halls
I am not
Fat, dumb, ignorant
I am not
Crazy, stupid, rude
I am not
your typical young-minded teenager
I am not different
Because of my skin color
I am not
The person everybody thinks I am.
By Tyeesha Mendez
-the reason why i choosed and like this poem is because i basically under stand the writer , what she is trying to say in poem.
