Having entered the ‘Age of AI’
our spines to mush have turned
Bridges to common sense burned
our Luddite instincts we’ve let fly
Fear, the dominant emotion
folks ready to drown in the ocean…
The motorcar was to lead to debauchery
a dramatic increase in teenage pregnancy
The computer would replace human beings
life would lose all meaning
The motorcar and the computer we’ve somehow survived
Last I checked, more and more people alive
Perhaps we’ll manage to survive AI too
Come Halloween, don’t forget to say ‘Boo!’
Her dreams are scissored
Her hopes are shattered
She groans to a deaf world
Her ears are swamped with words
She's stuck with the bed
While her peers are paging through the future
She is a burden, oh !!!she is nuisance ..
She sometimes dust her self off
Yet can't find the ground to put her feet
It robs her of her joy
She goes through life with a soft mind ,yet cold heart
She sometimes hates the gender
And all she has is herself...
Teenager, protect your future
Teenager, don't murder your heart prematurely
Teenager, protect your future
Teenager, don't be your monster
Society, let's protect their future
Teenage pregnancy is an enemy, not to teenagers, but society...
"Teenage Mother"
She had it all
A very bright tomorrow
She always smiled
Though broken internally.
All was rosy...
Until she stopped listening
To the voices of reason
We blame it all on adolescence
That girl was gone for good.
She started smoking
Boys were the only thing she understood more than any subject
Broken friendships
Many wrong choices.
She lost the most important key in life.........Education!
Her mother died from depression
An invisible father
She was now on her own...
Pregnant at fifteen
How can a toddler look after another toddler ?
When the baby cried,so was the mother.
She needed money for pampers, milk ,napkins and rent,
So she traded her body for a piece of bread and chicken change.
It was all over for her at sixteen,
She watched as her peers enjoyed the gift of youth
So many regrets,yet no solutions.
Another baby in her belly
Disease in her veins
Alcohol in her breath
She died at eighteen
What will happen to the lives left behind?
My home is my home
But let me vomit these pains that is
hidden in my heart
Even stray bullets have found a place
to hide secretly
Cause my home is a crying ocean
My home is a home
But read these sad realities that sleep
on our face
Shining stars wait for the rain drop to bath
While future leaders roll in the ghetto smoking their minds away
My home is my home
But come and see how we live here
Lack of safe drinking water and good
health system
Sadly, we die every minute the clock ticks
My home is my home
But you've seen its people
'Teenage pregnancy' - the hottest competition
Sex is less expensive - even 100LD can get you a couple of minutes
My home is my home
Guess I learn that in school
They say: never forget the road that
leads you home
But mine has many potholes and cracks
My home is my home
Government has come and gone
Yet my home is just the same home
These thoughts keep cycling in my head
My home is 'New Kru Town'
I pray you make too many visits
And see the torments and torture
Cause my home is blown off
Girls when your climbing the ladder of success, don’t let them stop you from doing your best.
Don’t believe the words I love you, when all they care to see is you not getting through.
They say you’re cute/they say you’re fine, but nine months later they say you’re not mine.
Keep your head held up high, so you won’t have to be singing a lullaby.
With broken heart and all alone, she cried.
“I love you.” were his words, but he lied.
A sweet young girl now lost in deep despairs.
No! Teenage pregnancy; God knows and cares.
She always was her daddy's little girl.
His precious child to womanhood was hurled.
A father's love surpasses anger's flares.
No! Teenage pregnancy; God knows and cares.
She went to church to learn the right and wrong.
A choir angel singing heaven's song –
Brothers, sisters solemnly sit and stare.
No! Teenage pregnancy; God knows and cares.
Her rounded body feels the life within.
Motherhood lives near to her chagrin.
Her mother held her close; the tears were theirs.
No! Teenage pregnancy; God knows and cares.
“Sure, she's nice,” he said, but we are so young.
Fatherhood was not for him; his song was sung.
“She should have been more careful,” he declares.
No! Teenage pregnancy; God knows and cares.
© May 22, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/teenagepregnancy.html: Often, teenagers don't receive
timely prenatal care, and they have a higher risk for pregnancy-related high blood pressure and its
complications.
She was making love with him the other night
Without protection she felt alright
Yesterday she found herself worried instead of proud
Cos she was sure that she hasn’t got IT this month
Today doctor said, “Congratulation. You’re going to be a mom.”
“Uh-Oh”, that all she could say
Realized she only is sixteenth just today!
Contest: Mom, I'M PREGNANT!
Sponsored by: Gwendolen Rix
*Teenagers who become pregnant before marriage, dealing with problems of psychological
pressure. Namely fear, disappointment, regret and low self-esteem. Psychological impact on
teen pregnancy hardest part is when couples who knocked up does not want to take
responsibility. Feelings of guilt made them did not dare tell the truth to parents.
(http://healthmediconline.com/psychological-impact-on-teenage-pregnancy.html )
MAMA'S TALK
Lifes lesson's I was never taught.
A boys lie's are why I got caught.
He told me things that weren't true.
I should've known but didn't have a clue.
Mama looked at me and said"have you gained weight".
I told mama you might as well know this month I'm late.
We will go to the doctor and find out for sure.
Mama say's"hey no sex is the cure".
My job will be to do whatever the baby needs.
They told him it was his job to cause he planted his seed.
Nine months went by and a baby was born on this day.
After all this bet I'll listen to what mama has to say.
25%of American households has a teenage pregnancy.
Entered in Gwendolyn Rix Mom"I'm pregnant"contest.
I was 16 and he was 21.
It was a one night thing,
And was done in the spur of the moment,
I was drinking a little he was not.
I was late and he decided to run.
I was left telling my parents alone.
While he ran around some more,
What was I to do?
I was searching for the courage to tell someone.
I was scared and just another teenage statistic.
How did I get myself into this awful mess?
Now I need to make a life changing decision.
I can't even drive. Man I'm screwed this time.
Do I abort the baby now while it is an egg?
I know I can't give it the future it deserves.
Do I keep the baby and own up to my mistakes?
A lot of people find the courage within them selves to stay around.
I am 16 and made one bad call, now I must pay for the rest of my life
No matter what I decide.
Mom dad I made a mistake,
I am sorry!
Don't be mad!
It wasn't meant to happen like this.
I am pregnant and don't know what to do?
Mom I need you!
As her parents replied we will get by.
"Teenage pregnancy" contest
In 2000, the total number of teen pregnancies in the United States was 821,810 (84
pregnancies per 1,000 people) Pregnancy Info.net
I am bored with all the lies in the news,
The celebrity’s that live to abuse and misuse,
The war that never seems to end,
The Cosmo articles on “how to steal her boyfriend”
I am bored with reality TV,
To be honest, teenage pregnancy greaves me,
I am bored with the over use of sex,
In our world that loves and then says next,
I am bored with our lack of morality,
Listening to others false realities,
I am bored with our superficial planet,
Plastic surgery is our fruitless magnet,
I am bored with all our family feuds,
A people whose minds have become so skewed,
I am bored of people always complaining,
In a country where we all keep gaining,
I am bored with the lack of common sense,
Where good people run around extreamly tense,
I am bored with public officials putting America in a deeper mess,
Where nobody cares about the real issues that need to be addressed.
By:Sabina Nicole
4-20-11
Contest: Bored with....
D R E A M S
C A N C O M E T R U E
ALL OUR ANSESTORS HAD A DREAM A VISION THAT WE WOULD SEE THERE PAST
NOW WE BRING TO LIFE THERE STORY
THE WAY THE WORLD HAS CHANGED AND EVOLVED IS YET TO BE SEEN
TODAY IS FORGOTTEN
TOMORROW IS UNKNOWN
YESTURDAY BECOMES A MEMORY
THEY SAY LIVE FREE OR DIE
BUT WE ARE CONSTANTLY REMINDED WHY
PRISONS OVERRULED
SCHOOLS UNDERSUPERVISED
POLICE CORRUPTED
HOSPITALS UNDERSTAFFED
CEMETERYS EMPTY...THAT MEANS THERE IS TOO MUCH ANTICIPATION ON UPCOMING
DEATHS TOO MUCH SENSELESS CRIMES AND MURDERS
TEENAGE PREGNANCY DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGS RAPES ARSON
IS THIS HOW ITS SUSPOSED TO BE
BRUTALITY AND DEMOCRACY EQUALING ONE
WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR TO SAVE THEM OVER THERE WHEN OUR OWN PWOPLE
ARE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY WE ARE THE PAST NO LONGER THE FUTURE
WHAT DO OUR KIDS HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO
T h I n K
I had a dream one night,
about how the world had no light.
There were ten years olds growing up so fast,
buying guns and killing kids in class.
Loss of childhood innocence.
High teenage pregnancy rates.
Teenagers' killing senselessly, not caring that heaven was slowly closing it's
gates.
Loss of morality.
Mothers' killing the young lives they create,
General safety continues to eliminate.
Loss of security.
The only innocence left was from children just learning to walk,
Four dozen murders and no one wanted to talk.
Tossing and turning, i began to fear this world.
Scared that i wouldn't wake up from this nightmare.
Waking up in a cold sweat,
I realized that this was a dream that i would never forget.
I turned on the news and saw a similar reality,
Which i will never forget.
Burnt y my own accord
But only to an extent
The girl I fell for has died
A new one was not born, but sprouted from the ashes
Her child will suffer consequences
Greater than she deserves
Without a father for protectionshe'll likely beat
From the stress of teenage pregnancy
So true-to-life my words are
But only because I've been there before
My mistakes are numerous, but this isn't one
She is everything to me and more
But the restraining order has kept me at bay
I will not sit back and let her have her
At night I slunk into mother's window
Grabbed by the face and poured vodka down her throat
Forced pills in her mouth to swallow
Then cut her wrists deeper than mine
It's suicide right?
Now she's gone and I can have the one who matters
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