WEIGHT
OF THE WORLD
By Greg Mendrzycki
12th Grade, Souderton Area
High School (PA)
Lost
in the world
Getting chased by greed
Leaning in the everlasting arms of,
Hate and Love
Bearing a daunting secret
A preacher crouches in the shadows
And reawakens a memory
A memory of just a man
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SHADOW
By Amethyst
Becker
11th Grade, Souderton Area
High School (PA)
What
appears on the surface is only what we see.
Stories with soft spoken voices swim through the
room,
Lurking,
Hunting,
Waiting for you.
Innocence and carefree notions saturate the scene.
The tone,
The mood
Haunts you to your bones,
Leaves them silent,
Shaken and scared.
The darkness engulfs you,
Sprinting through your soul
A shadow appears,
The smirking of the night
"What have I to fear?"
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I
AM
By Kara Stegmann
11th Grade, Souderton Area
High School (PA)
I
am the dark moon in the midnight sky
I am the flickering street lamp outside your fence
I am the caring family
One who never leaves your side
I am dangerous love
The chill that runs down your human spine
The dark shadow that lingers
I am the one who helps little things
I am not as I seem
I am Film Noir
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BEDTIME
STORIES
By Lindsey Thompson
11th Grade, Souderton Area
High School (PA)
it's
a deep, dark night
so tell me a story
with rhythmic words of faraway lands,
where the kings and palaces must exist in sub-Saharan
Africa
hide away the gold, keep it safe
from your own encroaching shadow
and the oversized silhouette cast in the dim light
allow ten seconds for added suspense and a rousing
wail from the orchestra
violins quivering like your own body
and timpani thundering like a heartbeat
it's only a man,
his voice crooning, deep and eerily mellow
only a man,
so hide our gold,
and don't let the bed bugs bite
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MECHANICAL
By Kelsey Cohan
11th Grade, Souderton Area
High School (PA)
Moonlit
tales of kings and gold
With woeful eyes and heavy hearts
From the comfort of one's bed
But soon that bed will provide no sanctuary
He is coming
Under the streetlights a shadow lurks
Joints moving one at a time
Singing a soft death song from a well-oiled jaw
To lull you into eternal sleep
But he is just a man
No
He is more than just a man
He is mechanical
He is a machine
The hunter
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DON'T
LET THE BED BUGS BITE
By Taylor Magee
11th Grade, Souderton Area
High School (PA)
He
hopes to comfort her
With a simple bedtime story
Both are blissfully unaware
The bugs are the least of their worries
As fate looms outside
Glaring up at the window
Shadows mix with shadows
A silhouette interrupts
Not by coincidence
The
story is unfinished
The end is hanging in the air
Clouding the room with tension
The silhouette knows the ending
The ending that would make its owner happy
The kids won't see it coming
Bed bugs will soon be ideal
To a certain hymn, echoing
The devil's choir
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AN
ESCAPE
By Kara Gaburon
11th Grade, Souderton Area
High School (PA)
"Tell
me a story, John."
Tell me a story.
Of something far away.
An escape that has nothing to do with now.
Take me away.
We'll go to a place where children can play.
Where it's light and happy,
Where good things don't only happen during the day.
Tell me a story.
"Tell me a story, John."
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FILM
NOIR
By Corinne
10th Grade, Souderton Area
High School (PA)
Shadows,
Darkness,
Tell your little sister a story,
Look over your shoulder,
The villain stalks you in the night,
in the darkness.
Calm her nerves and yours,
Promising the bed bugs won't bite.
Close eyes,
Block ears,
Do not listen to the man outside the window.
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THE
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
By Steph Dowd
11th Grade, Souderton Area
High School (PA)
On
a dark night
Tell me a story John…
His shadow on the wall
Coming in through the window
Light flickering from the lamp post
A shadow appears over the Johns shadow
As the man
Not just a normal man
Whistling eyeing up the boy
Knowing he has what he wants
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