Haikus!

Teacher's Note: As part of our multidisciplinary enrichment week, the education staff and students at the Detention Home studied China and the Olympics. Here are some of our haikus!

my cheeseburger is
the best with hotsauce at lunch
better at dinner

months of detention
motivation was the key
I'm more determined

pollution is here
killing me all over the world
we need green indeed

lost in this big world
wishing I could spread the peace
I am just an ant

I got writer's block
can't think of a decent rhyme
I'll just chill, kill time

it's a new lifestyle
going home and won't be back
It's not like my home

Cowboys are the best
they're going all the way this year
we can not be stopped

I like Halo 3
I like the X-Box 360
I need a remote

head bobbin music
brand new flavor in my ear
my mind can't get enough

I really don't know
why I keep coming back here
I really must stop

Life is such a pain
it's like a really dark train
hope I find the light

girl girls girls girls girls
can't live with them or without
they can be stressful

elementary
I was getting straight A's and B's
then it went downhill

you have to play hard
you got to put in effort
just to win the gold

respect is something
that is critical to show
give it and go home

a brand new year means
a brand new tear for all my
friends who died last year

a new football year
which will have some obstacles
skins in superbowl

locked behind locked doors
the life of a criminal
saddening all our loved ones

life is hard at times
physically emotionally
scarred is what it leaves u

I want to go home
I have to be confident
this place is too strict

The Untold Acts of Mind

Time is an object of the mind
as Time and pain influenced by a soul
can be cruel beyond reason
but as I am a heaven sent dove
locked away in the devil's cage
caught in the sweet smell of sin
the devil lured me in and captured
with the trickery and mind tricks
of power and greed
raised of Darkened foolishness
then God told me to fall back
into the arms of my angel
but I could not see
for I was in darkness too long
the light of purity and forgiveness
had blinded me but as
I realized I was the
savior of my mind and soul
the mind is the object that
only you can make the mold for

A.S.

My Mistakes

My Mistakes

I have a hard time forgiving myself for some of the things I’ve done. Though some of the things that have happened I realize aren’t my fault, but some were. I feel like for a lot of my life I have been naïve and selfish. I know I can’t undo a lot of the stupid stuff I’ve done, all I can do I make it better, which I guess you could say I’ve been trying to do. Though before I didn’t try, or care, enough to make things better. After I left my residential treatment center I though I had gotten myself together, for the most part. But somewhere along the way I fell back into a few bad habits. Now I’m being put in foster care again, this time for a year until I turn 18. It sucks because I think I should have been given one more chance with my mom, though I understand where everyone else is coming from too. I have been given a lot of chances and for the most part screwed them all up. But I really wanted to do good this time and the only reason I had missed school all those days was because I was sick, I even had doctor’s notes to prove it. But yet I still get punished.
I have made a lot of strides yet every time I go to court they always focus on the negative. It’s never “Great job you’re not depressed any more” or “Congrats on being sober 2 and a half years”. Of course not, that would be insanity.