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Hope
By Shani Jonas


I actually believe that there is hope for this generation
For the boys and girls and adults of this nation
Even with teen pregnancies
And puberty coming too fast
With rapes and murders
And relationships that don't last
With mini thugs and thieves
With judement that's cruel
With abuse and hunger
And no religion in schools
I may be a fool
To think that we can possibly achieve something in this dog eat dog world
But I have a lot of hope
For just a 12 year old girl

I believe that men
Will stop treating women as objects
That they will stop watching her "twerk her stuff"
And really mean their "I love you"
Women will stop getting dragged by society into the black ashes of the souls that used to belong to confident girls
That they will stop being insecure
So they can see the roses among the thorns
And the buds among dry leaves
I wish that parents will stop beating their children
Because is it worth all the pain?
Killing your own flesh and blood?
I know I can't do much
To change all the evil in the world
But there is one thing that both you and I can do to help.
And that is to pray and
Hope
Hope
Hope, for a better life
Dedication
by Shani Jonas


Caramel kissed skin
And big brown eyes
Goofy laugh that makes me melt
And a sweet scent that never gets out of my head
But self-esteem is at an all time low...
others walk on you
But you just don't realize
You think their your friends
But they talk about you behind your back
And they don't  consider you one of them,
They push you down
use you
and don’t see how wonderful you truly are.
but i?
i love you.
in more ways than one
you are my brother, my crush, my  great friend
and a stupendous addition to my life
you’re sweet and cuddly and never put up a fight
you are a shoulder to cry on
and my own personal advice giver
you make me laugh when we joke around
And I love it when you tease me
i have had feelings like this before
but never this strong
that means you are special
that you are the one
Why can't you be mine?
I want to be at your side
All of the time
Suicidal Thoughts
by Shani Jonas

I paint a pretty picture
on the base of my wrist
with my razor and some red liquid
and my hand clenched into a fist

I do one stroke for everything thing I hate
everything that gets me down
I do a stroke for everything that turns my ugly smile
into an even uglier frown

I do one stroke for promises
that are very often broken
There is one stroke for love not returned
When someone throws away your kind token

another stroke goes on my wrist
for all the unfairness in this time
things go good for a second
and go bad for months at a time

A stroke for all the people I can’t stand
a stroke for all the harm done
a stroke for all stupidity in the world
a stroke for all the guns

that **** all those innocent people
I use this razor to show the things that I hide inside
one more stroke and I’m dead...
*A stroke for committing suicid--
You (YKWYA)
by Shani Jonas aka Aririkatoki

How can I just ignore
the way you make me feel?
The way that you have my heart sprinting
it's almost as if it was in a race
Yes, a race, where the trophy is your love and affection
a race, where even though the finish line seems to be no where in sight
my heart keeps running
Because it's wishing, hoping
that all this work will be worth it in the end
because I'll have you, right?
Wrong.

You have my stomach doing gymnastics
tricks that would get 10 gold medals
but what good would those be?
they don't matter
because even after all those awards
I won't be happy
because I wouldn't have you

Oh, I try and try and try
I really do
but no matter how much I try
I can't be just friends with you
So even though we joke and laugh and play
and even though it may not seem this way
My heart is still racing
and my stomach is still flipping
and my soul?
my soul is just longing
and even though I know the finish line will never come
and that all those medals will never be enough
my soul will still long
and that's all that I can do.
PLAGUES
by Shani Jonas

Plagues will die
Plagues will burn
Plagues will burn in hell
fiery, fiery hell
Down, Down, Down and Drown.
Vroom Vroom
The gas so thick
burning match stick
woomph
The body engulfed in flames
What is it?
Is it a... Cat?
There's something wrong with that.
Maybe it's a special type. I may have misspelled it.
The body burns, burns, burns, burns, burns, burns, burns
burns.

BURNS DOWN TO HELL
Bye, Bye Plague
What?!?
WHAT IS THIS?!?
Reborn? The plague reborn?
Like a phoenix, a plague reborn?
WILL IT NEVER LEAVE ME AND MY SOUL ALLLLLLOOOOOOOONNNNEEE?!?
WHY HAS IT- THE CURSED THING- RETURNED?
This is pretty bad, I only took about 4 minutes to write.
Ako Dec 2014
I went to buy a pizza.
She told her mother.
Our oldest one is called Nadav.
His youngest one - Shani.
Hurt
By Shani Jonas

A broken heart.
That doesn't even begin
To define the word hurt
When you're emotionally hurt
It’s a thousand screams
Shredding the in the lungs
A sinking pit in the bottom of one's stomach
A stabbing knife under the ribs
The slouched back and the distraught mind
And the thought of kicking everything
To feel pain other than the one that’s felt on the inside.
Sometimes you just want to leave your body. To fly away into the bright sky
The cool breeze against your face and nothing on your mind
No one wants to face the hurt they’re feeling
No matter what its about
The twist in the side
The ache in the mind
That’s what hurt’s all about.
Future
by Shani Jonas

Look into the future.
What do you see?
do you see yourself famous,
or a martyr to this world?
will you have a nice house, or will you live on the street?
will you have children, or have none?
will you go to college, or leave from high school
will you focus on work, or on fun?
the future is always changing....
flipping and turning around
because in reality there is many futures
and one thing leads to another...

then..........
BOOM!
gone.......................
­forever.
for the future quickly becomes the past.
with every word on this page
time passes..........
and you’re inching closer
closer to you future
the future is what you make it
so make it a good one...........................
3 Person Sidewalk
By Shani Jonas

Have you you ever tried to walk on a sidewalk
With three people side by side?
It's very hard you see.
Because of oncoming traffic from other pedestrians
Or scaffoldings and construction in the way
Or cuz of any other obstacle?
Well, one person usually gets pushed to the back
And I'm usually that one
While my friends are up ahead, chatting like there's no tomorrow
I'm at the back
Alone.
Oh, if only there was 3 person sidewalks
So no one would be left out
No one would be left behind.
Because 3 people on a two person sidewalk
One has to get isolated
But why is that one always me?
Regret
By Shani Jonas

Don't you sometimes regret
The things that were left unsaid?
The times were you hid in the closet and locked the door
And close away your feelings from the outside world
Many may call you shy
Others might call you obstinate
What the actual problem is fear of rejection
One cannot tell
If all will go well
When they finally express their feelings.
Nobody wants to have to go through being rejected
So they go back to their sedentary activities

And don't you just regret it
When things that should remain unspoken
Have been released from mouth to mouth, in to the air which is the gossip of society today
Not only does it lose friends
It breaks trust
And leaves one with a broken heart
A wise man once said
Don't dwell on the past
Look forward into the future
But how can we look away from the past
If it is always there to haunt us
And Effect the future itself??
Envy
By Shani Jonas

It's a terrible thing
Like something is climbing from your gut
And ready
Ready to explode
Envy is the black dark hole that many are ****** into
Dragged away to a place of no return
Envy is stuck In your throat
A big gulp your can't get down
When you see someone accomplishing their dreams
When you're not
To see someone get something get something
That rightfully belongs to you
To see the loving comments of their adoring fans,
When you can barely get applauded
When they reach the big time
Your out in the cold.
All alone
Vulnerable.
And people walk by and pity you
Or spit at you like Bob Ewell in disgust
If only, if only you had gotten your chance back then...
That my friend, is envy.
My King (aka Dedication)
by Shani Jonas

I wish I had known you in heaven before I knew you on earth
So I could have loved you long before the time of my birth

Never change, not even a bit
because to me, you'll always be  exquisite
You grace this planet with sheer sophistication
Elegantly embodying your regal disposition

You are a boy of undeniable touch
Of value and virtues, you're made up of such
You are beautifully carved
And intricately designed
The mirror image of God the divine

A precious gift sent from above
Delicately wrapped in layer of love

My king, Who knew it would come down to this?
sign, sealed, delivered with a kiss
that one would go into their heart
and think about things from the very start
seeing things unseen, feeling things that weren't felt
for a person such as I, who doesn't even begin to comprehend how these thing are suppose to be dealt
i will have to wing it through
just like snipping thorns off bushes to get to the true beauty on the inside.
The roses
oh if one’s desires could truly be answered
all thoughts and wishes would come, not needing a second thought about them
but aha, that not how life works
one has to figure out things..
for themselves

you are my brother, my friend
and a stupendous addition to my life
you’re sweet and cuddly and never put up a fight
you are a shoulder to cry on
and my own personal advice giver
you make me laugh when we joke around
I have meet few people like you before
I hope that when i give you my all, you"ll open the door
that you ** are the one
My king
larry mintz Dec 2024
I started the McGill pro Palestine storm,
Inveighing over Israel help I gripe.
Shani charged me of anti Semitism.
Protesting Israel genocide ,no hype  .
And butcher  ties to Israel  ,I warn.

Flak is a winter storm ,to Israel- I say,
We had twenty tents set up initially .
Amenities for all protestors too,
They increased to one hundred tents  surely .
The police  called to stop the event anyway.
“Take a newspaper account of an incident—a riot, an assassination, a bombing—and imagine that you are one of the participants. Rewrite the account as a first-person poem, using some of the details from the account-The Poets Companion
Johnny Noiπ Jan 2019
Mother's Day Mother's Day Mother's Day,
future funds from Mother & Pa Russia,
as well as the economy of Victoria;
are wonderful photos of what kind of woman?
In Shanabar,            Shani MAM spoke with women in the United States?
In the modern world,                 Italians are Germans,
Germans,        |        Germans and Germans.  English,
Spanish, European cities, textiles, Spanish,
colors and rock music, motorcycles,
text examples. Something better for vitamins,
vitamins and giraffes is the Museum of Life.
The museum is a dream.                         If you cannot write songs or sing,
you have nine children in the city.
Flthuanola: Sea, Beck,                         good company,
Adenovayrs Jack,    fire of the Holy Spirit,                      satellite systems,
five years Saturn day
/ date / day,  a new line.
The messages about the father,                                            the happy one,
the year and the wedding can be green.
For example, the tropical climate is very warm
                                                   and the design is high in Russian carpets. Who is the best woman in America on the bus today?
Levin in a window for your life ...                                
in Germany, for example,
English, Spanish Abre, European,
Cameroon,                        Spain,  Space         rockets, motorcycles, visit...
Good and beautiful vitamins, rich in vitamins,
lakes, prostitutes and lifestyles.                     I want to become a museum.
It does not use hearts or music,                                     the text is obvious,
but it is an animal and it was lost.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
is calling on potential candidates to participate
in the sale of products for cancer and prostate cancer in South Africa. Currency of Mitesa, Mittera ask, ask, ask, ask, ask,
Materus was an abundance of food to eat.                       Chromatotata
Apo offline, future owner of Z., roses and cubes.
Photos of the planet. Did people do it?                     Georgia SUNATA
BARMAPARA Young (Sergei's Saturn)             and terrifying for women
who visit gelets'echewi politics? History,
walking and writing in English, German and German.
The results, English, Spanish, European cities,
Bland Spanish,           on the Grammy dance floor in good physical condition,                    and the headquarters of music, motorcycles,
a conversation about ears.               |  |    
|    What is miracle and diabetes,
vitamins and shame? Use your mouse
Here you can see the tragic in the tragic conditions
that can help us grow here. Falatola -
Barents, New Bake Line, Great Company,
Jack's Glands, St. Crono Street, Saturn Monk / Emma.
MetroPrint Five years, Dr. Dube,              on the head,
green aspect, Green tamarind will eat fish too low.
How can I humiliate my beloved sons Jia Perriella,
& Ali Tatsuo Rooseño Monito?                       Germany Gia's charming puzzle,                                Spanish Angliki, Spanish, Evia, Kameroun,
cycling, running, cycling, ecstasy ... vitamins, fats,
fatty acids and Sheba,                            seventy & seventy acids in the field.
Is the same.                     Music and music for all the girls on the beach
and on the beach, sugar cane Paras Risi, Siyar,
Devi sugar cane / sugar sugar five years
Nathia Africa K Madars Royal Pampa,
Madars sub-Zha
has Madhy Madars of Adhayaayon
Madars Madars, Roos                                                             ­                             
and Viktoriya Datara Vitta bhavishy.
What kind of person you are?
What is the name of the foreign language of the girl in the United States? Popular artists in Great Britain and Libya, Libya.
Kuchh udaharan angrejee, spenish,                          yooropeey Sahar,    
roommate esl,                                            spenish, poonjee and greskel,
songs,                  motarasikil with lekhan.
One of the greatest achievements of the world
is the world of life and love.                I do not know death in my dreams.
If you cannot read it and read it well, leave it alone.
phathuaanola: mein samudr,          saiyat bekko complete naahi, mahaan kampanee, edenovaayaras jaik,
phayayar egiya Shan Nata KA / swirling / Dean, Saal is paanch. The green feeling can be green, delicious & sweet,
maybe the weather. Garm pampa Hai,  udaharan lie Ke, Yojana ek mahaan currency position                 On the coin.
What am I doing with a man when ****** harassment occurs?
Ke Liye jarmanee Leven jautha, angrejee,
spenish, yurop, kaimaroon,
spen, roket, saikil, print ... Jeevan
mein Hain Apen DETE or chehara
khalata Apana has khalate.
Well,
vitamins, vitamins, gelatins,                                                        ­       vitamins and Gavin.
The teacher is excited to keep the museum
in the museum. No computer is used,
but I don't know what to do,                              but I do not know what to do.
Agale, haidromasaaj, beetah, paark /
pakark and Manoranjan Desh, 15 years old.
Casablanca and Vanessa are located in Magda
and Argouroka. Mothers, mothers, mothers,
mothers and others are invited to speak.

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