BROKEN WORLD
By Najera
So lonely, so quiet, so dark.
I feel like I’m on my own and I’m falling apart.
Someone to care is hard to find.
Just like a friend to call mine.
I don’t like it here, not at all.
But I put a smile on my face to prove people wrong.
I’m left with no mom, she’s 6 feet under.
I just needed one more chance to tell her I love her.
My daddy is happy now, with another woman.
Their married now, but they shouldn’t.
Its like my voice doesn’t count and no one cares.
I’m not saying I’m ok cause my heart is sore.
All because I’m in my dark & lonely broken world.
NEW BEGINNING
By Najera
Rock bottom puts us in a new position.
We’re all scared lonely, and lost.
We try to exclude the world as if everybody is fiction.
We face these crazy challenges and pay the cost.
Help is needed but we never ask.
Everything in my head, I want to say,
But instead I say, leave me alone and get out of my face
Only because everybody turns out to be fake.
So let’s get away and face the world.
Let’s live our life and smile
But then we fake these smiles and our cheeks are sore.
And then we’re walking miles.
Walking to find some kind of guidance.
Look up to God and say what you need to say
And his Son gives all his love to you and you’ll find it.
Tomorrow will be a brighter day
Your pain will soon be finished.
Then we all will say,
Today is my new beginning.
- By Hardee, former CASA child
Thank you for being there,
and showing that you cared.
In the darkness you saw light,
and fought for me with such might.
In the end did it come out right.
Am I what you wanted me to be,
or am I what you thought I could be.
Or maybe I have disappointed you in someway,
just tell me, I promise I'll be there someday.
We fought together so many battles,
we fought together in this war called life.
I was the soldier and you were my armor,
without my armor I would had
been beaten and left for dead.
But instead, we won and moved ahead.
So like I said before
In darkness you saw light
You fought with such might
In the end did it come out right.
I Am a Voice
by Richards Partners of Dallas, TX
To a child silenced by injustice,
I am a voice.
To a child with whom the world has broken faith,
I am someone to believe in.
To a child who knows only rejection,
I am unconditional acceptance.
To a child lost in a nightmare,
I am permission to dream.
Amid confusion, I am certainty;
amid instability, constancy.
Amid cynicism and shame,
I am innocence restored.
In a dark labyrinth of bureaucracy,
I am a way through -
a steady arm around the shoulder,
a calming voice in the ear.
Where others are moved to pity,
I am moved to action.
I am as quick to confront the powerful
as I am to comfort the powerless.
Though I may be visited by discouragement,
I do not play host to despair.
I do not relent;
I do not back down;
I do not give up.
In a system of shifting loyalties,
my loyalty never waivers.
For while my appointment may come
from a court,
my calling comes from within.
To the child neglected,
the child abused,
the child cast upon the mercy of an
often merciless system,
I am heart and caring and courage
personified.
I am a CASA volunteer.