9th Grade Poetry
We've had enough
By:Keeley Kaplan, September
2020
Enough!
We’ve had enough!
The sun was out and shining
But now everything is turning dark
Why can’t all of this chaos and sickness go away?!
People are dying every day!
People are devastated
And they are lonely
Wearing masks
Staying at home
Constant storms
Hurricanes all across the atlantic
Losing communications
The government doesn’t know what to do
No one knows what to do
When will it be enough
Goodbye
By:Keeley Kaplan, September 2020
The person I met
In 8th grade
I fell for him
He seemed different
I thought it would last
Oh how I was wrong
He put me through so much pain
So much hurt
He was the poison in my tea
Toxic to me
And I never realized until now
I wrote him a heartfelt note
And a heartfelt poem
On valentine's day
And he didn’t speak to me
For two weeks
Are you really that upset
People say you’re so kind
But it hurt
Those two weeks of me wondering what was happening
And then he basically let me down gently
Don’t do that
Just tell me
It’s going to hurt me more letting me down gently
Because in reality that’s harsher than telling me the truth
You said we could still be friends
You said it wouldn’t be awkward
And I believed it
But you made it awkward
I returned to normal
But you changed
I didn’t push my feelings on you
I didn’t try to pressure you into liking me
I left it there
Why did you make it awkward
Things might’ve been fine now
If it didn’t end up like that
I don’t have feelings for you anymore
And you can’t call me your friend anymore
You’ve lost that
And you’ve lost my trust
You told me that you were here for me
And that you cared
And then when I try to talk
About the things that are hurting me
You never say anything
You wait for me to change the topic
Seriously, what the hell dude?!
You clearly don’t care
Or value my friendship at all
You stopped responding to what I say
You will only respond to hello and how are you
If I say anything else
Then you are silent
When I came out to you as asexual you were silent
You played pretend
You were not a friend to me
You stung me like a bee
Like I said, you were the poison in my tea
You walked away and still say I’m your friend
Well I’m not
Karma has come back to get you for treating me like that
You don’t have me as a friend anymore
I gave you so many chances
And you threw them all away
You can say goodbye to the trust that I had in you
You can say goodbye
Say goodbye to it all
You no longer have my heart
You don’t have my trust
I’m not playing your game
Say goodbye to it all
Say goodbye to me
Because I’m not coming back
After what you’ve done
Goodbye
Good luck
Don’t treat someone like this again
Best of wishes to you
Say goodbye to me
Because this is my goodbye to you
Goodbye
A poem by Miles Dallara
September 2020
No rest for the wicked
A dark flame
Watch the afflicted
Look at the monsters they became
Listen to the beat of death
Listen to it pound
Take your final breath
Drop to the ground
See the dark gate
Looming over all
Feel the deathly weight
Take the dreaded fall