Submissions by jedgardner

First we learn to write by print
And drawings
Then we make words
On to sentences, questions,
 And punctuations
On to cursive. It gets drilled
Into write don’t print
            Redo
First you’re born
Then as you’re learning to scribble,
Draw and write letters to numbers,
You write your name, mom and dad,
Dog, cat and draw your house.
From that you do sentences,
Questions, all in print
Then you learn “cursive”
A whole knew world
You can no longer print
Its all cursive
Drill Drill Drill
Last half of elementary to...

I’m hearing voices in my head
There telling me that I am dead
No one seems to understand
All the pain that I am in
Here I am I’m here to say
This is the world of yesterday
No one knows what to do
When you lose the one you choose
All I’ve done with my days       
Is let my time just slip away 
Now through the gates of hell I pay
With my very soul today
So here I am I’m here to say
This is the world of yesterday
When time passes me by
No ones going to stop and cry
No one seems to care 
That I’m no longer here
But...