Skate

Love is like skating

Sometimes you tumble

Sometimes you land the trick

You always keep trying

Always chase after it

No matter what

Nothing will stop you from getting love

You’ll end up falling in love sooner or later

You’re not too expensive not too cheap

Your whole life will change because of love and new things will happen

It will take some time to get used to you but eventually everything will work out

Not everyone is picky but I decided to choose you

You will do anything to achieve love even if it means you’ll get hurt every now and then

People got me questioning why is it hard to achieve love

Is it because we aren’t confident in ourselves?

Love can hurt you even though you tried and you tried

Love can ruin your days

In many ways

But you will always get back up and try again

Love isn’t as simple as it is but it will be later on

Love is everywhere but be wise in your choices

Love can change your emotions faster than you can blink

Some love could be good or bad for you

You look at every detail and you suddenly fall in love with them

The thrill of having love is the feeling when you’re riding a rollercoaster, it either goes slow, fast, uphill, or downhill

You never know where it’s gonna take you

A Moment

He Swung

This time not at the wall with the hole already

This time it was his pleading wife

Telling him to stop, “don’t lay a finger on me”

Her screams were like sirens

Except they weren’t the sirens from a cop

As soon as his fist touched her face

He didn’t stop until

Until she was on her knees cupping her face

The living room was filled with cries and screams

Her tears were enough to end a drought

Her husband has left another hole

In the corner is just a young girl

Looking at her weeping mom

Slightly glancing at her alcoholic dad

Trying to comprehend but too young to understand

She runs to her room confused

In tears

There was no comfort in that moment

No sirens are heard

No one is being saved

No one is being arrested

The living room is dead silent

The wife has no more tears to shed

She is sitting alone now

Her mind wanders on just what happened

Her daughter is asleep

She sleeps on the thought

On the thought that she’ll never see her daddy again

As for her father

He left

The Racist Effect

The Racist Effect

By Erick Sandoval

All of these people talking and being racist

They think they’re so cool but they won’t say it to our faces

People thinking they are superior because of their skin color

Well all I hear is bullshit because we are all the same

In our own declaration it states we are all born equal

Y’all check again because what they’re saying shouldn’t be legal

You make us hurt more than stubbing your toe

It is sad how it’s almost as common as a TV show

We see police officers use force against minorities

How can this be happening within our own authorities

You people inhale oxygen but exhale prejudice

We should all spread love not create a nemesis

I see all that’s going on and just ask how

People are just crushing our emotions as if they had a snow plow

I just watch and ask myself how is this a reality

The fact that we are fighting each other is all a big tragedy

This is not the way life has to be

We can all just live together happily

But no

Too many people saying we are irrelevant

Saying that we are not white so we are not intelligent

Shots fired at us for reaching into our pocket

It is so damn powerful it’s as if they almost shoot a rocket

So silly how they say we are bad because our name might not be Billy and we like chili and cross the border all willy nilly

They say other races are not pretty

That our lifestyles are shitty

And when they see us on the street all they think is that we are a pity

Are you kidding me, our basic rights are being taken away

Making people want to slowly fade away

It is like a nightmare repeating itself every day

Calling police when you see us because you are afraid of being abducted

But if you see, minorities are the reason this country was constructed

How about you all just quit and make your life productive

Love and Peace is what makes this world great

But all I see people just distributing hate

We need to discontinue this before it spreads at a high rate

People are giving racism to people like serving food on a plate

You can’t just show love for your own race

Because it only leaves space to discriminate

And that just produces hate for everyone else to taste

baseball

Baseball
Conner Kendall

Baseball made me who I am.

If you love baseball, you know what I’m talking about.

If you are like “huh?” let me explain

T-ball started it all; it’s where I met my first friends

I was an outsider, nobody knew me  

I recognized kids from my kindergarten and we started to talk

I played through the outfield, the outskirts, the outside of the group;

I kept dropping the ball and throwing short.

I couldn’t throw:

devastated. I just wanted to give up

My dad put an arm around my shoulders:  “Conner, you’re no quitter.”

He gave me a lefty glove and said “Now throw.” So I did.

The ball floated into place, and so did I.

I’m a lefty.

I found my place at first base;

I was a part of the machine and synchronized with my team.

The next year was a new game and a new face

At school: I stayed away from the new kid

On the field: he looked like I did.

I saw that face looking for a place

We became friends and still are

Baseball teaches empathy; everyone starts somewhere; everyone has a part to play.

If you see a person just starting out, remember you were in that position.

You’ve played that base, you’ve needed a place.

If I had given up then, I wouldn’t have my friends

As I got older the game got competitive.

I wasn’t on a team with my friends

it let me meet new people

Plus I would still see them

When you play no one wins or loses; you learn how from what you’ve done.

My friends, my attitude, and bonding with my dad all came through baseball

Baseball made me who I am.

Difference

We were told that all man and women are created equal.

There is a difference between wealth and poor.

There is a difference between white and black.

Still, there are slavery in Africa, or Cuba, or Asia.

Children are driving from their home - that's called child labor

Adults were kidnapped and forced to work in hard labor - that's called labor slavery

Women are being trapped to force doing sex - that's called sex slavery

Where is the equality here among us on this earth?

The whites are on the top of the social pyramids,

and all of others has to look them like that.

We are being determined who we are by races, by the color of our skin

If you are black then you must be a criminal;

If you are Asian then you must be the one taking away our jobs;

If you are whites then you must be wealth and full of knowledge.

We as human shouldn’t be judged by the color of our skin,

We can’t be judge by what kind of chromosomes we have.

Our chances and success are being taken away or blocked by the color of our skin,

Our success always being blocked by the invisible ceiling above our head.

And all of us, all of us had try really really really hard to our goal

But the color of our skin stopped us from doing it.

Our goal, our dream, our life were drowned in the deep ocean of color.

Why can’t we human on the earth,

Treat each other with no difference,

The color of your skin does not determine who you are,

The color of your skin shouldn't be the obstacle in your life.

The color of your skin does not make your life.

Superannuation

If we are all truly equal

Why am I prevented from

Speaking my mind

But with others

It's considered a right?

Am I not human?

If we are all truly equal

Where are my rights now?

If they can be taken away

They're privileges

That I don't have

Am I not human?

"You are the future"

Is their common refrain

But is their idea

Of the future really

As trammeled as us?

If we are all truly equal

Why are my rights expendable

And yours are sacred?

Why is there imbalance?

Am I not human?

If we are all truly equal

Why are we treated as children

And then expected

To behave like adults?

Are we not human?

just keep running

just keep running

Sometimes a race is the same as love

You’re nervous at first   

And you have a lot of competitors

And you wanna skip it

And relax in bed

But you end up doing it anyway

When the gun shoots

You run your heart out

You can ether give up

Or keep going

But you keep going

Even though your face cries with sweat

You try your best for love

Your trial might get dusty

You might trip or fall

But whatever you do just keep running

Later on

You might find a rival that is pushing you

Trying to make you lose

But just keep running

When you cross the finish line

And you feel like you might puke

Nothing seems better to you now

then to sleep

When everyone is done and they announce the places

You either did not win or you did but no matter what

Just keep running