Teen Talk

July/August 2007

If I…
by Carlos Rosado

If I were to whisper you a secret
Would you tell it or keep it?
If I said you mean the world to me
Would you laugh, or believe it?

If I tried to hold your hand
Tell you some near future plans
Would you shrug me away
Or would you understand?

If I felt broken or weak
If the world seemed so bleak
Would you let me break and fall
Or would you be my concrete?

If after the day we both take our vows
We realize our attitudes are like north and south

Would we cut it right there
Or would we work it out?
If I lost all that I owned
And I was financially broke
Would you just disappear
Or would you be there to hold?

If when the kids come around
We didn’t have time to clown
Would we turn sour and bored
Or go for a night on the town?

If life pushed the age button
And I went from young to sixty somethin’
Would you lose all attraction
Or still kiss and love it?

And if we reached the end of the line
And God came to take us because it was time
Would you quiver with fear
Or hold my hands by my side?

You see, I know what you’re thinkin’
Why do I keep asking, “If I?”
If I already know the outcome of our lives?

Because I know how you are
I don’t have to decide
You are truly the best half of these lines.

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by Tanya Troxell

Drowning in a world full of anger.
Overdosed on a life full of danger.
Stuffed in a world full of false hope.
Tired of a life full of dope.
Kicked in a world full of pain.
Trapped in a life full of games.
Pushed in a world full of negativity.
Exposed to a life full of bad activities.
Burned in a world full of lies.
Paralyzed in a life full of good-byes.
Frozen in a world of defeat,
Mocked in a life full of deceit.
Thrown in a world full of corrupted history.
Hated in a life full of misery.
Molded in a world full of rumors and publications.
Laughed at in a life full of minimum education.
Clowned in a world made for you to decline.
Tripped in a life of trying to climb.
Ignored in a world full of dreams.
Spit on in a life full of nothing being clean.
Cursed at in a world full of failing.
Held up in a life full of nailing.
Robbed in a world full of good deeds.
Killed in a life full of things that none of it should be.

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