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#72601voted by our readers
Alone
By Anonymous

Why do I feel so sad? Can you tell me why every day I feel so bad? Maybe because no one is there, Is something wrong with me? This is not fair. Every morning waking up kn...
#72602 Poetry
Everything Ends. Pt.1
By MarinaOreo GOLD
King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania
MarinaOreo GOLD, King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania
12 articles 0 photos 148 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Your soul is the whole world" -Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

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#72603 Poetry
Once Upon
By sburt33 GOLD
Kissimmee, Florida
sburt33 GOLD, Kissimmee, Florida
16 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;And they say we&#039;ll never see half as much <br /> as they did. It&#039;s true that we never saw Vietnam <br /> or World War Two. We didn&#039;t see our mother&#039;s cry <br /> when John F. Kennedy died, but we&#039;ve lived our <br /> whole lives being told that we&#039;re just not good <br /> enough. We&#039;ve seen anorexia and bulimia because <br /> skinny just isn&#039;t skinny enough. We saw Columbine <br /> and watched the Twin Towers fall. We&#039;ve seen a <br /> lot of greed and even more hate. Our generation <br /> fights a different kind of war but we&#039;ve seen just <br /> as much as them.. and maybe even more.&quot;

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#72604 Poetry
The Real Deal
By deannababyy GOLD
Brandon, Florida
deannababyy GOLD, Brandon, Florida
15 articles 22 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;With God, All things are possible.&quot;

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#72605 Poetry
The Difference Between Living and Living
By pernidole BRONZE
Gilbert, Arizona
pernidole BRONZE, Gilbert, Arizona
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;These violent delights have violent ends / and in their triumph die, like fire and powder&quot; Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet

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#72606 Poetry
Memo to the Fallen
By Anonymous
#72607 Poetry
Baseball Thrill
By Anonymous
#72608 Poetry
I loved you
By Anonymous
#72609 Poetry
I swear, I'm unlike any others...
By youaintgotnopancakemix SILVER
Danbury, Connecticut
youaintgotnopancakemix SILVER, Danbury, Connecticut
7 articles 0 photos 1 comment
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#72610 Poetry
YOU YOu You you (and me)
By elizabethlarsen121 SILVER
Iowa City, Iowa
elizabethlarsen121 SILVER, Iowa City, Iowa
7 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don&#039;t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I&#039;d have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you&#039;re wrong? What if you&#039;re making a mistake you can&#039;t undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can&#039;t pretend we hadn&#039;t been told. We&#039;ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today&#039;s possibility under tomorrow&#039;s rug until we can&#039;t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

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