Mandy Howard

Many ask, if I'm high,
Many ask, if I'm low,
Many ask, why are you so happy?
And many ask, why are you so sad?
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Lord of the Flies,
Trapped children will soon become,
Savages, corrupt, and will have their true survival instinct tested,
And how they act as individuals.
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War child, war soldier,
I'm too young to go kill,
I have nightmares every night,
the flashbacks are so powerful.
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Now that I am rehabilitated,
and feeling better.
I wish to be the spokesperson,
To deliver,
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Why are you looking at me,
Yeah, just like that?
(Don't you know this hurts?)
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Negative thoughts,
All wrapped up in my brain,
Constantly racing,
Through my mind again.
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All I want again,
is to be your friend,
but when you turned me down,
my life starts spinning (round and round) ,
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Happiness cannot be created nor destroyed but it can be altered. There are different levels of happiness; extreme happiness when we achieve something that we wanted to gain; accomplishment, or unhappiness when we cannot achieve something that we wanted to gain; disappointment. The goals that we set will prove to either be an accomplishment or a disappointment in our lives and how we act accordingly will affect our level of happiness.

Accomplishment can be the result of ones' own success, the successfulness of having completed a task because the usage of time was used appropriately as well as the perseverance that was needed to keep going. The passage of time is needed and used in order to be able to attain goals that we may have set. With the passage of time, perseverance is closely related, as it links together the ability to take the time needed in order to do something, and the ability to keep trying and to never give up.
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When words hit the heat,
and tears come strolling down,
rage that seems to only implode,
and anger that only gets released through tears.
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(Meant to be read quickly)

I don't know why,
But I feel so ECSTATIC…
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In a rut,
I want out.
In a rut,
I need help.
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             When You're in Pain:

When you're in pain,
You may be calm!
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Things are so great,
I can hardly believe,
not too long ago,
I was in the ER,
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