Birth

Infant Joy by William Blake

"I have no name: 
I am but two days old." 
What shall I call thee? 
"I happy am, 
Joy is my name." 
Sweet joy befall thee! 

Pretty joy!
Sweet joy, but two days old.
Sweet Joy I call thee: 
Thou dost smile, 
I sing the while; 
Sweet joy befall thee!
Source: poets.org



My Footprints by Caitlin Eileen

Soon i will learn to walk with them
Tiny feet, so very small,
with ten little toes in all,
as soon as i get a steady stand,
Listen to the pitter patter of my feet,
this sound through the house
surely can't be beat,
A little each day, my feet will grow,
and someday soon, outside i will go.
So catch me now and save my prints,
for tomorrow will come
and off i will sprint!
Source: clairesdiapers.com

Growing Struggles

Missing Piece by Danyal Conner

You do what you're suppose to do,
with no frown or fuss.
Not because you want to,
but because you must.
Day after day
It's like a routine.
Don’t have too much to say,
You only do the right thing. 
Soon you feel empty,
but you don't know what it could be.
You want no sympathy.
But it's something you can't see
Everything used to make sense,
but now you're lost in a maze.
You feel so tense,
and you pray for better days.
Something just doesn't seem right 
You look for an answer that's not there.
You stay awake all night,
But you feel like no one cares.
It's right in your face
and you think it's safe, 
or should you forget?
Things don't seem the same,
But what should you do?
You think you should change,
But change for who?
Understanding means nothing to you now.
Your heart is pronounced deceased
This should you allow,
or find your missing piece?
Source: bestteenpoems.com

~teenagers~

~you haven't even lived half your life~

Through it all by Destinee Snuffer

Friends come and go
Life flies by right before your eyes.
You loose ones you love
Yet through it all you still love your life.

People leave you to fight alone
You put on a fake smile to hide all your pain
Yet someone still knows your hurt.

Through it all you still put on a front to satisfy those around you
Thorough it all you wouldn't change a thing
Through it all you wouldn't trade your life for fame.

You build a wall to try to keep from getting hurt
You lock up you heart and throw away the key to see who cares enough to look for the key
Through it all there's not many people that got you to open up yet still you love it all.

Struggles meet you in the face to watch you slip up
Yet through it all you wouldn't change a thing.

Through it all you wouldn't change a thing
Through it all you wouldn't trade your life for fame.
Source: familyfriendpoems.com

Goodbyes

Farewell by Peter Rhodes

Farewell is a word, 
So simple, so dour
Saying what started
but did not endure.
Farewell is a feeling
of something that’s gone
Farewell is a memory
that stays for too long
Farewell is everything
that’s been left unsaid
Farewell is the greeting
of someone
who’s dead. 

Source: poemhunter.com

Stanzas by Emily Brontë

I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me,

There's nothing lovely here;

And doubly will the dark world grieve me,

While thy heart suffers there.

I'll not weep, because the summer's glory

Must always end in gloom;

And, follow out the happiest story—

It closes with a tomb!

And I am weary of the anguish

Increasing winters bear;

Weary to watch the spirit languish

Through years of dead despair.

So, if a tear, when thou art dying,

Should haply fall from me,

It is but that my soul is sighing,

To go and rest with thee.

Source: poetryfoundation