Maya

**By: Maya**
 * Graham **


 * Graham, **
 * I love you. **
 * I will remember all the fun time we spent together. **
 * It is just not right. **


 * I love you. **
 * I am so proud of you and I hope you will remember me when you are gone. **
 * It is just not right. **
 * MY big brother. **


 * I am so proud of you and I hope you will remember me when you are gone. **
 * I will miss you. **
 * MY big brother. **
 * College. **


 * I will miss you every day and try to think that you are still here with me. **
 * I will remember all the fun time we spent together. **
 * College. **
 * Graham. **




 * Someone Should Have Taught Him **
 * By: Jane Watkins **


 * I went to a birthday party **


 * but I remembered what you said. **


 * You told me not to drink at all, **


 * so I had a Sprite instead. **


 * I felt proud of myself, **


 * the way you said I would, **


 * that I didn't choose to drink and drive, **


 * though some friends said I should. **


 * I knew I made a healthy choice and **


 * your advice to me was right **


 * as the party finally ended **


 * and the kids drove out of site. **


 * I got into my own car, **


 * sure to get home in one piece, **


 * never knowing what was coming, **


 * something I expected least. **


 * Now I'm lying on the pavement. **


 * I can hear the policeman say, **


 * "The kid that caused this wreck was drunk." **


 * His voice seems far away. **


 * My own blood is all around me, **


 * as I try hard not to cry. **


 * I can hear the paramedic say, **


 * "This girl is going to die." **


 * I'm sure the guy had no idea, **


 * while he was flying high, **


 * because he chose to drink and drive **


 * that I would have to die. **


 * So why do people do it, **


 * knowing that it ruins lives? **


 * But now the pain is cutting me **


 * like a hundred stabbing knives. **


 * Tell my sister not to be afraid, **


 * tell Daddy to be brave, **


 * and when I go to heaven to **


 * put "Daddy's Girl" on my grave. **


 * Someone should have taught him **


 * that it's wrong to drink and drive. **


 * Maybe if his mom and dad had, **


 * I'd still be alive. **


 * My breath is getting shorter, **


 * I'm getting really scared. **


 * These are my final moments, **


 * and I'm so unprepared. **


 * I wish that you could hold me, Mom, **


 * as I lie here and die. **


 * I wish that I could say **


 * I love you and good-bye. **


 * Muddy Footprints**
 * M ** uddy footprints went though the kitchen
 * A ** ll around the living room
 * Y ** es, even on the sofa
 * A ** ww, I found it in the laundry room curled up all wet – my little puppy.

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