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Love
Love is so promiscuous, It entangles so many, Like lava, viscous Grasping any.
Love travels far,
From Spain to New Mexico Toying with hearts, like a guitar And the effect is domino.
Love is so dangerous
It shoots to kill
Love isn't to sustain us
But who doesn't Love the thrill?
Love is so entangling,
It grabs the heart and squeezes, As it feels like we are strangling But Love is still so pleasing.
Love is so promiscuous
-Max Blumenthal, Grade 7
Blue Ribbon
Left Alone
I never knew you were going to leave
I never knew you weren’t going to tell me I never knew by the blink of an eye
You had already packed your things
And departed away from me.
You would laugh with me You would cry with me You would care for me Until I figured out
It was all just an act.
You left me there
Cold and alone
You were the only person in my life That I ever loved
But all those thoughts went away Once you abandoned me.
I was just 7 years old
When you decided it was a good idea
To shatter a little girl’s heart like a mirror I never thought at that age
That I would have to experience such pain But life’s filled with surprises
And you, were one.
I was afraid,
I was upset,
I was stressed,
I was confused,
I was abandoned, By you.
-Miranda de Armas, Grade 7
Blue Ribbon
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Tamara Santoyo Geijo, Grade 7