by Amity Harris, special distinction winner in the 2021 Art of Conservation Collection (Plus a bit of 2021) March 5th The Day is dark The night is worse My heart is breaking My head is cursed I am wrong They are right I’m disillusioned There is no plight You are fine Tell them all Lie to them Never fall They must not see Behind our mask I’ll break your soul That is my task You’ll die alone On a bed Of rosey thorns That are dead March 6th I want to tell No more lies They’ll try to stop me Be my demise I wish I knew But I don’t Help me please Because they won't March 13th Say goodbye While you can Give a hug Or shake a hand Tell a friend What they mean We’ll never know What could have been March 28th The day is done The sun is gone The Sky is dark The birds have sung Our world is less But the Next has more Because we have lost The one we adore A flower among grass A star in the night My Lola is gone Her soul has alight. April 1st A day of jokes Is funny no more We feel no joy In our cores A weekend of friends With our moms and fun No clothes no food Shopping for none April-May These Months are long They never end I see no light I see no friends I sniffle from earth And also from tears A spring eternal Is what I fear May 25th In hours we’ll know The horrid reality A cold reminder Of a broken society A people’s plight To show the light To those who find no wrong In taking their rights A man is dead He’s not coming back He was kicked from this world Just for being Black He deserve better We all know it But there are those of ignorance Who refuse to show it This world MUST change Or else I fear I may lose the ones I love In future years The color of our skin Says nothing of our heart We live in this world too We wish not to depart We are just as smart We create our own art We do our part As a part of this world So I ask you now If this is what you want Is this the America You praise and flaunt Is this the world I’ll grow into Hopelessly watching It break in two I cry some nights In a heart wrenching fear That my brother will die I weep endless tears My family is kind We hold few sins We love each other So let us win In a battle against Fear, crime and hate We spread our love We educate So help me fix our world One hug, kiss and word at a time Find the music, find the rhymes Empathise with others and fix broken minds. June 1st The time is coming It approaches fast We take our bows Like a cast We had our run Slipped at the end But we made it here With old and new friends Now is the time For us to go See where life will take us Perform in new shows High school awaits We have much to learn This time is important Our lives take their turns So now we bid farewell To those who taught They all believed In me and my shot We love our school We are proud to be From such a loving home As the one and only OB. June 19th Summer is here Here at last We hope to have fun School has passed We have so much time For us to have fun I hope to see friends And greet everyone We can now leave the house After we hid inside But still we must be safe Or at least we must try Six feet is the rule That rules us all We wear 1 to 2 masks Into the fall September 17th School is back Stuck on zoom Just hours of screens And breakout rooms At least we're busy No longer a dark empty hole I want the world I used to know Where my heart was bright and whole The world is dark The people fight The giant's point fingers Will we all be alright? But school is back We learn once more Will we get through this? No one is sure September 29th Today is my birthday I have few plans I’ll celebrate with friends Do what I can Not much to do We sit in and talk Politics, school To cold for walks We have our cake And eat it too We worry about the future And the parties two Red, white and blue Is how we feel A color of sadness It’s all just so real October 31 Today is Halloween The best of nights We wear out costumes Give other a fright IRL Among us Is the game of the year We laugh and run There is an imposter here We forget our woes We fill our tums We eat the chocolate And chew the gum This is what we needed Time as a group We stick together In little troops Carmen Sandiego and Dawn Assassins, pirates and witches Don’t expose the imposter Because snitches get stitches November 3rd My stomach churns I can’t help but sweat I pray people do what’s right There’ll be chaos I bet I pull up a tab I constantly check We can’t risk to lose this Or else it’s all to HECK All things considered Things are looking good Things are going to go well Or at least they should We are really nervous For whatever lies in store The News is nothing but talk I can barely take it anymore November-December The winter is dark The future is bleak It's been unbearably cold For a couple of weeks Christmas is coming Or at least I think I lose track of the days But lately eggnog has been the drink I shiver in the cold Thought there has been no snow I can’t wait for the warm Or else I must go To a place where the sand Burns my toes Where people wear short And have sunscreen upon their nose But now I am here Stuck in the North Where I don’t belong Christmas comes And then it goes What the future holds No one knows But the New Year came I stayed up till midnight I played video games with Emma The switch was our light We listen to music Of old and new And then on January 6th There was a coup January 6th What happened that day Is hard to explain But you should know there was hurt You should know there was pain As America watched An attempted assaination On the peace and democracy Of our Nation Guns were shot So where the people Both good and bad And even some evil Flags of hate Flapped in the air Windows were shatter None of it fair No one seemed to care Of the destruction they brought Because they never thought That they would be caught There would be consciences For the hatreated they insisted In Fact they were more than delighted By the fear they struck into our hearts They took pleasure in the part They played in ripping us apart You couldn’t help but watch The chaos unfold The stories that were told The bodies that went cold The evilest among them trolled But still we must be bold In our fight to buy back What we never should have sold This an unimaginable mold That change the country that we hold So dear to our hearts So now I ask you to do your part In helping one another Be a sister be a brother Be a sibling be friend Because we know in the end We are stronger together Then having to fend For ourselves So pray That we never ever Fall pray To devilishly clever Ways of hate I wish not to debate With you if you hate Me for who I am Because the idea that hate is the way Is nothing but a sham... January 19th Today is the day We jump in delight As we remind ourselves of our victory In the painstaking fight Songs are sung Poems are read We hope for the future And mourn the thousands dead GaGa’s dress is pretty with red Mitchell looks like a queen If looking good was a crime Kamala would be a fiend Jill is the first lady Bernie is turned into a meme It’s a day of joy We laugh and dance I’d hug the world If given the chance The haters will still hate They will try to debate But I will ignore them for now And later I will educate I relax a little The time is here I feel at peace My head feels clear There is still much to do In healing our home But for now I’ll look at Bernie memes As I finish this poem |