A Box of Letters

A Box of Letters

I find myself In a place where I traverse a box, a box with one line to tread

In a place where that line is a path so squared and boxed, creativity strays outside

In a place where there are only five destinations,

Five reflections

A B C D and F

I find myself in a place where the destination outweighs the journey

Where numbers and letters eclipse the learning

F is for Failure,

is that everything I am?

D is for dumb,

is that who I am?

C is for careless,

is that all I am?

B is for better,

is that what builds me?

A is for amazing,

is that what makes me?

I am on that path, the path that tries to measure and define me

The path where I write my essays for a number,

The path where I lose sight of exploring for myself

A path in which a letter battles my esteem

A path that makes me forget who I really am

Because in this box the real me is

Invisible,

Inaudible,

But I know if they just emptied the box

I could be Incredible

I feel trapped inside this box of letters

A box made with skewed reflections to look at

Love is Like a Roller Coaster

Love is like a roller coaster

It can go up

Then it moves quickly down

It can be difficult

To change the path of it

Change can be good

But sometimes

People say it can be bad

Right as you think it is going well

It breaks down

In the process you can be hurt

Sometimes it is fixed

Sometimes it never

Never

is the way it used to be

It is rough

It could also be boring

It could be fun

You can sometimes get sick

And want to stop

But keep going

Others tell them to stop

Eventually they stop

And all of them

All of them end

Passion- Adam Tadros

Passion

Life has no meaning without passion

Passion isn’t something you are forced to do

Passion isn’t something you sorta like
Passion is love

Passion is freedom

Passion is what defines you

Passion can be anything, anywhere, anyone

Passion is an avalanche of emotions

Bubbling up from inside your chest

Excitement

Love

Joy

Thrill

Peace

It is like oxygen

You need it to breath

But leaves you breathless in its own way

Its passion it is the definition of life

Definition of love

Always there

When you are passionate about something

It should make you feel at home

Comforted

You should need nothing else

Satisfied

You should be able to close your eyes and feel something

Passion is something you have to find

Look in every corner

It may take a while but it’s always worth it

It may be something that you’re scared of at first

Or it may be scared of you

But either way

It can be anything

But it doesn’t matter what it is

Rather what it makes you feel.

Passion.

My Other Half

When people say we look alike

We both say otherwise

She has dark brown hair like the color of her eyes

While I have black hair that shines brightly when exposed to the sunlight

She is a mountain

While I am a short tree

She is eleven

While I’m fourteen

I just don’t see

The resemblance they see

I fight with her every day

Not lasting a second in harmony

Our arguments are like tennis matches

Throwing insults back and forth

At times I pretend she doesn't exist

Each word we let out collides,

Making a dent in our relationship

Then

I think of that day

It was sunny

The brightness blinded me

Didn’t know where I was going

But knew who I was meeting

I carried the purple blanket

It was soft

Like the pillows on her bed

That were set up before she even arrived

She had big, dark eyes

They stared at me

While her chubby cheeks

Blushed as a red balloon

I look back at this moment

And wonder

How can I hate her?

This human being I did not know

But was mesmerized the second I saw her

I crumbled down

Into a pile of rubble

When I saw her cry

She seemed so frail

What seemed to me as a joke

Left a scar on her heart

As I saw her cry

I saw the chubby baby

I once cradled in my arms

So small and delicate

So pure and innocent

My unforgiving words punched me in the back

Making me feel remorseful

So shallow

I felt so unreal

So I tell her

You are my missing piece

Although you may be younger

It seems you know more than me

You are as kind as an elephant

You are as smart as can be

So the next time

Someone says

I look just like you

I will nod

And say

I know

Appearance

Do this because it looks better

Do this to impress others

Wear this because they will like it

The more skinny you are the better

Be the next super hot model

Because they will love it

Being another one of those plastic barbies

From stores and tv shows

Is that  what all of you guys have in your head?

Girls having sleepless nights thinking that they don’t look perfect

That they don’t fit in a certain size

Because they aren't too skinny

Or that you don’t have the body shape

Like them ”perfect” models in the magazines

Does body image really define who you are?

Does it express how you are in the inside ?

Well this shouldn’t

Nobody can ever beat you

Don’t let anyone change your appearance

You are a wonderful person just like that

Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re not

You are all beautiful girls that have so much more

A head of your life then too just to be stuck on how you look to others

Don’t let one word change

On how you feel about yourself

Because let me tell you this

There is only one of you in this world

The beautiful you

And nothing will ever change that

Grades

Grades

Students all over the world are worried

Worried about what grade they got

And they worry what grade their peers got

Grades for math

Grades for science

Grades for english

Grades for spanish

Grades for history

There are so many grades that students have to worry about it feels like they are carrying a thousand pound backpack full of stress on their back

And most of them do not know how to cope with all this added stress to their lives

They think that poor grades mean a definite bad future

They say that it will be the end of their life

They say that it feels like their grades control them

But they don’t

And they should not

Grades should not matter as much as they do now

A grade is just a letter

But students are drawn to believing that this is all that matters  

Students believe that if they get a bad grade their parents will be mad at them

This is causing many students lots of unnecessary stress in their lives

When students are in school they are assigned lots of work every day

It seems like there are thousands of grades that students have to worry about.

I believe that we should put less of an emphasis on grades

And more on learning

This will make students less stressed about what they got
And work on weather they know the information or not