Popularity
One thing has always puzzled me
Is what is it to be popular?
It is like being walked by everyone
With a nice dog collar
Around your neck, being walked by everyone else,
Instead of doing the easy thing,
Which is being yourself.
So it’s not about the amount of likes or shares
Because at the end of the day
Nobody really cares.
Zach Keller
“Listen”
Do you hear that?
That is the sound of laughter,
the laughter of a child…
a child that is laughing at another child.
Now listen closer, listen to that child being laughed at,
listen to him breathing and stifling tears,
now listen to him on the inside.
Listen to the screaming and shouting,
listen to the crying and depression.
Now listen to the old lie:
“Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words will never hurt”.
Cian McKenna
Start With Yourself
So much wrong with this world,
So little time.
To fix every problem-
A mountain yet to be climbed.
The solution lies deep,
Within oneself.
So what can we do?
Start with yourself
Darragh Halpin
Peace Within
It’s not happening now, in the future or the past,
White supremacy, Muslim master class,
Terrorists in the East, Its why that we must ask?
These people are not Muslims, they spread terror and fear
Channel 4 news won’t reveal the truth,
The cost would be too dear,
It’s not how we think it is, the media portrays
All Muslims and ethnic groups,
In discriminatory ways,
We aren’t shown behind the scenes,
As many civilians die,
If you try and harm the west, 100,000 more will die.
Bombs are not the solution,
Peace and wisdom is,
Let’s learn from our experiences, and release the peace within.
Cian Fitzpatrick
I Hope We Can Still Be Friends
She told me I deserved better, but I didn’t.
Maybe someone who was better and nicer and who cared more, no one could compare.
Apparently “I was the nicest lad” she ever met, but as if I have never heard that line before.
And how she regretted “losing her feelings for me”, then why did you?
She couldn’t answer, ha I knew she wouldn’t be able to.
And how it’s not “fair” on me, having to wait around,
But she was worth the wait.
The last thing she want to do was hurt me,
But what did she already do.
And to make things worse she ended it with the famous line,
I hope we can still be friends.
Anon
Poor Man War Man
You know it’s funny when it rains it pours
They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor
I got the wild style, always been a foul child
My guns go poom-poom, and yo’ guns go pow-pow
If you battle L you picked the wrong head
I smash mics like cornbread, you can’t kill me I was born dead
Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live
Mix em and cook em in a pot like gumbo
I’ll puke, eat it, and freak you
Battle? I’m too weeded to speak to
The only key that I see is to defeat you
would be for me to remove these two Adidas and beat you
and force feed you ’em both, and on each feet is a cleat shoe.
Adam Smith
Views On School
I spent the last 15 years of my life learning
all the tips and tricks I can learn sadly 15 years isn’t going to be enough
spend too much of your life in school not learning the way you want to learn
forced every morning to get up and get ready for school
wake up at 7 shower breakfast and away you go 6 hours of boredom
once you get home you just wanna chill but wait you got homework
you gotta do spend all evening doing that you go back to bed
wake up the next morning and do it all over again
do the same thing for the next 13 years going in every day
doing the exact same every day no change until the summer
when finally it can be yours but September comes to dam fast
and you are back for another year of school it’s like trying to talk
to walls telling teachers how you feel they are just here for 1 thing
and that thing is money they say they care about you
when really they care about the money
Ciaran Breen
Stereotypes
I think it’s really annoying that people are really stereotype
people think all Pakistani’s are suicide bombers or isis
just because of tragic incidents in the past relating with Pakistani’s or Muslim’s
I don’t think it’s true at all because I have a few friends that are Muslim’s or Pakistani’s
and they are very kind and religious.
Another thing that really annoys me is the people think
all black people are born in Africa and have African accents
and always mock it or that African children get beaten by their parents the whole time.
Which is probably not the case in my opinion.
Hawal Johnson
Racism
I hate the way people think it’s okay to be racist,
you would think this far in time racism would have stopped
well it hasn’t I still experience this but I don’t think racism
would be as bad as it was in the past.
It drives me through the wall that people think it’s okay to be racist.
Racism would definitely be a form of bullying.
Hawal Johnson
Islamic State Problem
Islamic state is a problem,
But it’s not the Islam peoples fault,
Why blame them when it isn’t there fault,
Extremists group is a problem,
But save the lives of the innocent,
The world must unite and destroy these terrorists.
With a couple of bombs and a few bullets,
These terrorists will be stopped one way or another.
Darren Morgan
Education and I
To feel stupid in school
More like drowning in a pool
A pool full of disappointment and dismay
Preferring to be beat up in an alley way
To be told ‘you’re not good enough’ is like a habit done by many
Maybe they are just filled with hatred, fear and envy.
I’ll show them.
Ben Matthews
School
School where do I start,
Putting us under pressure with exams,
There like daggers through the heart,
They always say they understand,
But don’t realise the struggle
To try and balance all the work
With all our heads in a muddle.
James Tester
Terrorists
The biggest problem to land on this planet since sweatshops
and oil burning factories one solution
To end all this pollution
Is peace
And decrease
all the tension between the super powers and
did I mention
the criminals of this world
Matthew Boylan