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Vagabond Why won't you give this man wings instead of judging a man you didn't know? remember the pain your icy glare brings. As you listen to the choir sing and put on your holy innocent show Why won't you give this man his wings? As you live high up like mighty kings and let your inner hatred flow remember the pain your icy glare brings. As you sit listening to the church bell rings think of your own sins and eat crow why won't you give this man his wings? As you hear the sound of the harp string I hope you begin to feel really low and Remember the pain your icy glare brings. As you cast stones from your mighty sling talking of the s

                                   Weeds In The Garden The worst lies a person will ever believe are the lies that weed into the garden of their mind.  How do the lies get there?  It’s pretty simple really.  It starts with somebody planting a seed of deception. Then another comes along and waters that seed, throw in a little light, and dig around for a while. Pretty soon you have a garden full of weeds, which the child will tend to for life. I am worthless; this was the water in my garden.  The pail was held by my sixth grade teach

Fine Lines Forgive me father for I have sinned. It’s been three months since I’ve been here. Spending Saturday nights sipping Gin and chugging Coors followed by Sunday morn slumped over a toilet from the night before too worn to come visit. Forgive me father for I have sinned it’s been two years since I brought you my tears. More parties, fun, bonfires more slumped over Sundays spent spewing up multicolored remnants from the night before. Forgive me father for I have sinned, It’s been seven years since I whispered my secret sins in your ears. I traded being passed out in a pew for spending Sunday slumped over a table

Divided In 1965 my dad stands with relatives in a park looking over a wall. Even 20 years after war it divides a country in two. To an unsuspecting tourist it’s just some bricks and stones topped with barbed wire. In reality it is east versus west Free versus oppressed. A line of brick and stone the Russian way to keep people in. Ironically there was this wall in the country whose leader’s plea was unity for all the German people Instead of Unity there was division the west was free living a life of wealth and luxury. The east was trapped with heavy guarding and no escape. Looking over my dad saw a strip of open field tha

Lies by Ann Kopitzke Don’t say anything Ann it will all be okay, I promise. Shh, I don’t drink that much please don’t tell. The bruises are from football. I promise I will stop cutting don’t tell my dad. California will be good. It’s not what it looks like. I promise I will get rid of the gun. All the lies I heard from you yet I am still waiting hoping, praying, that someday it won’t be a lie. That someday you will throw out the blade. That one night you won’t come home trashed. That you will no longer have a gun under your bed. I can pretend all I want that things are okay. I can pretend that you

Jorden's Song by Ann Kopitzke As a coffin is lowered to the ground you hear a young woman's tortured cry as she struggles and wonders why her  best friend has to die questioning how no one realized or saw the guilt and and hidden shame inside a man who was so lost that his own arms he maimed Yet no one saw the pain in his eyes or how far down he had sank. They couldn't figure out he was in trouble or that every night he sat in his room and drank People didn't understand that he had dragons that he tried so hard to fight sadly with no help from anyone one day the depths of despair reached their height all alone sitting in wor

Losing Tomorrow by Ann Kopitzke My senior year of high school started out as a typical school year for me. I was taking classes, playing sports, acting and doing a few other academic clubs. My biggest concerns were costuming, singing on key, passing tests, getting my Star Project to state and finding the latest party.  Of course there were always the disasters that were kind of huge, like the day in October when I was eating breakfast and my friend Matt walked up and asked if I was ready for our American Lit test. My thought "oh shit" because although I was good at Lit I did not read the book because of volleyball the night before. To make

Drowning October 26th, 2009 was the day I realized you never really know how deep you  will fall until you watch a friend drown or how far you are willing to dive to keep a friend alive October 26, 2009 the day I learned how sorry you can be for all the things you did not see I'm sorry that I didn't see the war within or that you were sinking deeper and deeper becoming as distant as far away as the ocean floor I'm sorry that I didn't see the masks please forgive me for we were so young that I didn't yet understand life could have a setting sun. I'm sorry that once I did see I didn't throw you a life raft because you see the

Guilt Within They say it's always one horrible sin that does a person in that leads them to the gates of hell for me that is the guilt within Ever since you went away my eyes have been filled with tears for all the years we were friends. My heart has been filled lies And on my lips there are many nights of false alibis. No can see the black hole that is my pain No can feel the mask I wear to hide my shame I wish I would have and could have done more I wish when you said goodbye I had stopped you I am sorry I never saw the mask Or that when I did I never  had the courage to ask. Lord only knows I had the chances Chances when were

My God Loves My God forgives me why when you claim he is your God  can't you? My God helped the poor and the weak so why when you worship him  do you walk away? My God loved the little children Why do you neglect and shun them? My God loves showed love So why do you preach hate in his name? My God taught peace yet you fight wars in his name? My God saved my soul Why do you condemn others for him? My God died for all Why do you enslave people and call it religion? Why do you who claim he is your God do everything opposite of what he preaches do you know what kind of message that teaches. Love like he loved live for him tha