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#242221voted by our readers
Battlefield
By dancer08 BRONZE
Byron, Illinois

I don’t eat. I don’t sleep. I don’t feel the same since the world became a battlefield. We fight with red blood violence in our eyes, destroying our humanity. Chaos,...
dancer08 BRONZE, Byron, Illinois
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#242222 Poetry
Stronger Every Time
By Anonymous
#242223 Poetry
Hope For Better Days
By shanaj BRONZE
Congers, New York
shanaj BRONZE, Congers, New York
3 articles 3 photos 0 comments
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#242224 Poetry
Makeup Brush
By kait94 BRONZE
Newport, North Carolina
kait94 BRONZE, Newport, North Carolina
2 articles 0 photos 5 comments
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#242225 Poetry
Greatest Treasure
By noant21 SILVER
Troy, Ohio
noant21 SILVER, Troy, Ohio
5 articles 0 photos 1 comment

Favorite Quote:
Whether you think you can or you think you can't. Your right.

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#242226 Poetry
The Destruction of a Girl
By stmilona BRONZE
Natick, Massachusetts
stmilona BRONZE, Natick, Massachusetts
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments
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#242227 Poetry
Baby Girl
By AmaraKwameTheOnlyOne GOLD
Durban, Other
AmaraKwameTheOnlyOne GOLD, Durban, Other
10 articles 1 photo 36 comments

Favorite Quote:
Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind. <br /> – Kwame Nkrumah

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#242228 Poetry
Shadows
By Anonymous
#242229 Poetry
Trigger of My Figurative Gun
By heryearningloveforhatred GOLD
Wyckoff, New Jersey
heryearningloveforhatred GOLD, Wyckoff, New Jersey
15 articles 0 photos 6 comments
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#242230 Poetry
Never
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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