MASK POEM

Do I wear the mask or do I let it wear me?
Do it tie me down,down to the ground?
I wear the mask that shows me,the real me.
The sometimes upset but really friendly.
Or the really shy but sneaky me.
I need everyone's  help.
To help me live and enjoy this lifetime.I don't like to be alone.
Alone is like being trapped in a pine cone.
Of all my family that has died I sometimes feel alone.
So i greed my friends and family.

DAY OF THE DEAD

                                                    
                                                          DAY OF THE DEAD

Grandpa,
   I don't know much about you but i do know some great facts about you.
   You died of kidney failure and I don't want to know what it was like.If you were to come back to life would you still wear your favorite hats or wear your favorite blue pajamas?What kinds of jokes would you tell and do you still believe that the effects in the movie "ROCKY" were real?We all miss you dearly...Do you miss you wife, kids, and grand kids?I remember how you loved to eat your fried fish that your daughter(my mother) would make for you.If you ever came back would you tell me to sit on your lap and share some with me..?

                                        Andrew Bandabaila

                                            period 4

                FREEDOM                   

freedom from hunger and freedom from pain

freedom from loss and so freedom from gain

freedom to give and freedom to share

freedom from want and that of despair

freedom to think and freedom to know

freedom to achieve and freedom to grow

freedom from bondage and freedom of liberation

freedom from ignorance and any unknown situation

freedom to come and freedom to leave

freedom to stay and freedom to conceive

freedom from struggle and freedom from ease

freedom to enjoy and the capacity to please

freedom of failure and freedom of success

freedom from denial and freedom of access

freedom of illusion and freedom of reality

freedom to become what we are in actuality

freedom to live and freedom to die

freedom to laugh and freedom to cry

freedom to speak and freedom to listen

freedom to ask based on a wise decision

freedom to hate and freedom to love

freedom of below and freedom of above

freedom of the past and freedom of the present

freedom of the future and what i can represent

freedom from war and freedom of peace

freedom to begin and freedom to cease

freedom from sickness and freedom of health

freedom from poverty and mishandled wealth

freedom from wrong and freedom being right

freedom of the day and freedom of the night

freedom to choose and freedom to reject

freedom to imagine what there is to expect

freedom from lust and freedom from greed

freedom from anger and freedom from breed

freedom from jealousy and freedom from pride

freedom from within and freedom from outside

freedom of always not having anything to hide

freedom from space and also freedom from time

freedom from attachment and freedom from crime

freedom to work and freedom to play

freedom to believe and freedom to pray

freedom from the body and freedom from the mind

freedom from the ego and freedom from being blind

freedom of transcendence being of the spiritual kind

universal freedom is eternal and infinite bliss

we should all therefore be ale to realize this

                                      OPPRESSION JOURNAL

This type of oppression (violence) can be seen and or witnessed by people who are around the incident. People who experience violence can feel scared,upset emotional and like they are in danger because they might be scared of whatever happened to them happened to them happening again.What they can do to liberate themselves from this oppression is to move to a different place or they could start a new life by doing whats right for their community.

Our community needs more police officers.Our community should have more sites to go so kids are not roaming around the streets.Our leaders should lead others to do the right things so kids and others won’t do bad things and get killed.Another thing or community can do to stop violence is to move from an area they are in to another place that doesn’t have too much violence.Also because mostly all of the violence is gang affiliated.