You are the ones we’ve been waiting for!
Ivan
You are the ones we’ve been waiting for
It’s 2009
A few thousand minds combined
I’m ready to follow
And learn to lead
A seed
Willing to be nurtured
Water sun-showered the perfect soil
I am here
Rowland Unified, we are here
Unified
With pride
Outside the box
But we still want what’s inside
The box
Inside thoughts on paper
Journaled thoughts turned poems
Or notebooks or
You are what we’ve been asking
Beyond textbooks
Beyond lit guides
Beyond worksheets
Beyond standardized tests
We want fresh
A garden full of seeds
Yearning for growth
You are the ones with the most
The ones we’ve been waiting for
Nikki
(The ones we’ve been waiting for) are not the ones that sit behind desks, grading essays after essays.
They are not the ones that run bubble sheets into correcting machines, per say.
Young minds are like wild plants. They cannot survive on standardized forums mass produced in government agencies.
We cannot live on supplements of artificial sun lamps and bottled water contingencies.
We want to have... we need to have the sustenance of free uncontained curiosity.
Like the vitamins of growing knowledgeable luminosity.
Like the fuel of our minds to spark and explode like fireworks on the fourth of July.
To free the questions and answers of our thoughts once caught in lies.
An ingredient beyond the normal restrictions in the recipe of statistics.
Of explorations. Of discoveries. Outside confined logistics.
You are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
June
You are the ones we’ve been waiting for…
You are the ones who we are
Counting on to hand us our education
And put us on a path
To lead and bring up
A new nation
Our test is life and
With your help you give me
Multiple choices
But there are no re-do’s so
I put my full trust in you
To help guide me in the right direction
You are the ones we’ve been waiting for
Ashlyn
Class is just another task I must complete
At every instance in life I am learning
I can memorize word for word text in a book
To pass a class
But life is so much harder than that
No scantrons to bubble in options of life decisions
No percentage or grade to show how much we’re really living
See life is learning before this institution of education
Our struggles of our real life
Are past these tests
They want us to pass these tests
To show the country that we’re adequate but I passed my class
And still testing is just a mind game
A trick just to see how carefully we read the questions
It is a strategy that measures my ability to decipher and read
Rather than how well the teacher can teach
Years of materials into 34 weeks
Some teachers speak to us in dictating tones
Implying no equality
But forget that they used to be us too
Students studying subjects while searching for their identity
Because many become lost in this molding of mind
Think outside the box became think inside the standards
When will this learning system learn?
You are the ones what we’ve been waiting for
Nikki & Stephanie
-(Steph) Words are not simply the building blocks of responses to literatures.
-(Nikki) They are the atoms of
-(Steph) No boring dates and politicians can label our long past.
-(Nikki) History is beyond timelines and thinking maps you cast.
-(Steph) Prepackaged nutrition cannot sustain our hunger for genuine information.
-(Nikki) Not beyond the homemade meals and cultural cuisine of our nations.
August
I’ve searched for a place where I belong
Waiting for others to work around me
Hoping others will do what’s necessary for a better future
Time stands for no man
And to take all this time waiting for change
Has been my mistake
Every aspect of who I am
Has been formed by former choices
To create a new future
We must change ourselves
No more waiting for a difference
Everything I have been patiently waiting for has been in me all along
I can create change
And together we can change the world
Stephanie
Curious minds intrude upon your territory,
Prodding eyes tread on your property
Small and timid, shapes in shadows
Waiting for a time to enter the shallows
Drowning deep in a pool of knowledge
On their way, heading to college
You pushed them on their destined path
For you they feel no wrath
Ghosts of the past haunt your mind
Frightful and mindful, unable to rewind
These spirits will hinder the education taught by YOU
Choking on the words as suffocation threatens to take me
Demons fall upon their prey with glee
Serious faces pass by on the way to class
Minds are open, clear as glass
Lead a horse to water and make them drink from the pool
For their education, victims became fools
Blood congeals and flows
Bright eyes dull as a startling truth glows
Stiff with age at the bend
Feed me! Feed me! (I’m hungry)
Feed the thing you try to starve
So that it may try to carve
Its own graves
Give it the knowledge that it craves
We wrote a prelude to our own fairy tale as they leave tears when that devil lifts its veil
Down their backs as they are seething
Truth holds stronger than values
The ones that survive are those with virtues
Forget the light of commitments
Believe in the power to teach
Krystiana
History taught upon the stepping stones built with the intention of success
Broken English embarked upon society’s interest
So you expect the least
How do you expect us to succeed without the proper seed, without the proper amount of sunlight and water nourishing to our needs to be pushed just enough to be thankful that someone was there to push me
See you are the ones we’ve been waiting for
Textbooks don’t teach enough about life to get me through it and lectures don’t hold my attention enough to keep me into it
You are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
Ryan
(Cue: Ivan beat boxing)
Still water runs deep, when it rains it pours
We are the ones, we’ve been waiting for
Please no more of the somewhat dependent individuals
Just remember our hopes and dreams are invincible
Truly enough personal attributes will accommodate
The power to keep all of our minds straight
R. U. S. D. A family
Welcomes you in, respects you as a friend
From dawn to dusk our minds well be stuck
In the muck
Of best of luck
Best believe we won’t give up
Each day is another opportunity to share perspectives and knowledge between you and me
Hopefully I can speak for you; and you can speak for me that perseverance lives internally
YOU ARE The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For
Be Hopeful
Be Positive
Be Courageous
Be Passionate
August 2009