 | LIKE A LAKE OF TEARS
Everyday he could feel that moment of pain. It looked like he was carrying the whole world on his shoulders. Maybe he was born for that or maybe happiness was made just for some.
Between the shadows of the night he could read his story, alone in his bedroom he could live his blame. The shiny moon was always showing him his mistakes, his frustrations. The morning wind carries with it his deepest fear; it was like a knife cutting his soul.
How to construct a future if all he has are memories and sadness? A world with no hope, a country with no freedom, a soul without any dreams. The days have no colors; the streets lost their love. Everything is gray and empty, almost so empty as his heart.
Everywhere he looked, he could hear voices calling his soul, and everywhere he looked he could see death and hate. Peace was so far away that for every step he has given a lake of tears could be seen. Some hours of glory and a whole life of pain.
Some old newspapers on a dirty table could tell his story, but if he could he would write another one with his own blood. It sounds very strange and very painful, how could simple moments, simple acts destroy a whole life? It was not his idea, neither his wish but he was there and he lived that.
Definitely wars are not made for humans, he was sure of that and even if he wanted, his memories of so many deaths and hate wouldn't let him forget it. He had been used like a doll in this dirty game and now all he can do is wait for death and fight against his nightmares, which seem so real, so cruel
Written by Eduardo Chaves Sousa
English For Ever School - 1999
HOW TO BE HAPPY
Forget all your problems and enjoy the sky, take out your shoe
and walk on the grass, feel the gentle wind that passes and plays with the
colorful flowers; than, thank God for this treasure!
You see! Being happy is not difficult. The problem is that most of us live
deep inside our problems and we forget to see the wonderful things that are
around us.
We need to start to see the world with different eyes. If you are angry
because you have a problem at home, at work or at school, don't
go crazy! Breathe deep and try to find a better solution for your problems.
I know that it's not easy, but it's the only way to live happily and in
peace with the others, and especially with yourself. Let's try? Come on! You will
see! Everbody will live in harmony and so much happier and our world will be
a better place, without wars, descrimination or sadness. Let's be happy!
Written by Aline Nogueira - 2002
Fire in the sky
A man, in a rainy night, was running and running, he was scared. Suddenly, a strange and bright light appeared above the man. He started to shout: - No, please, stay away from me, no no... After it, no noise was heard; no light was seen. The man disappeared!!!!!
The next day, a woman called Joan went to the Police Station, the only one in South Ham. She said that her husband Carl hadnt gone back home the night before and she wanted the Police look for him.
The Police started to look for him and continued, for two entire days, but no sign was found. The Police had no explanation for what had happened.
A week later, it happened again: A man named Mike was walking with her girlfriend Jenny in the middle of the night looking for an open store, when the strange light appeared above them. Jenny fell down while her boyfriend, as she said to the Police the next day, was being pulled to a kind of space ship, which disappeared after it.
As the Police were having no success trying to find those men, they decide to call the FBI. 8 hours later, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were in South Ham interrogating Jenny. When the interrogatory was over, Mulder decided to go to the place where Jenny said Mike had been captured. Arriving there, Mulder and Scully started looking around. It was a kind of a road, with some trees next to it. Mulder noticed that there was one tree with a kind of a strange hole in one side of the road and another in other side. These holes were pointing straight to the mountain, 200 meters from the road. Mulder and Scully went to this mountain, but nothing seemed to be different. The night was almost arriving and Scully decided to go back to the town, to eat something. Mulder stayed in the place, trying to find some clue. As the same time as the night came, Mulder found a little cave, which he could enter with a little difficulty. After walking 10 meters in the cave with a lantern, the cave started to be come brighter and brighter. He looked to the right and saw a kind of an incubator. In the incubator, he found two men. With his cellular phone, he asked to Scully help him, who again in the place looking for the reason those men had disappeared.
Mulder continued walking down the cave. The light was getting so bright that he had to put his sunglasses. 10 meters, 20 meters,..., 2oo meters. After walking that much, Mulder found a kind of a space ship. Suddenly, the space ship took of and started to got up and up. It went up passing through a big hole in the mountain. When the space ship was high, a strange light appeared from it, which started to go to Mulders direction. He started to run, but the light was getting closer.
Suddenly, the light and the noise disappeared and Mulder too. After some hours, he opened his eyes and noticed that was in a kind of a one-door room. He stood up and walked toward the door and walked through a corridor. Arriving at the end of the corridor, he saw two little men. Getting closer, he realized that they werent humans Mulder decided to try to escape through another door, but the two non-humans saw him and started to run in Mulders direction. Mulder caught his gun and shot twice. One no human fell down, but the other continued running. As Mulder didnt have any more ammunition, he ran in the direction of the door. After passing the door, he noticed that he was again in the cave and he looked back to see where he was. He saw a big metal space ship, which started to take off. While he started to run again, he caught his cellular phone and called Scully. Scully said she was next the mountain and was going to enter the cave. Then, the space ship disappeared completely and Mulder after waiting for Scully, decided to go back to the place where the space ship had been.
Arriving there, he saw a big hole and many live humans, covered by a kind of a skin. He called the municipal hospital that sent an ambulance after it.
Some days after it, the police discovered that those humans in the cave were people who had disappeared years ago. And the strange light was never seen again. But Mulder and Scully knew: It will happen again"...
Written by Mario "Mulder" Rocco Pettinati
English For Ever School - 1999
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FORGIVE ME
I´m sad and nobody cares
I´m desperate and nobody can help me
I´m dying but nobody can save me
I´m searching for things that I won´t find
cause they don´t exist
I´m trying to hide my tears
I´m trying to hide my feelings
I´m trying to hide myself
from my deepest fears
I´m trying to be stronger
But it´s difficult when youre not here
I think the road is not long
I think its end is near
I´m afraid of getting there
Cause I don´t know what´s going to happen...
And just in case I don´t get there
I want you to know that everything I did was for you
And I wanna ask you not to blame me
I have my mind and my memories to do that
And I want you to know that I will always remember you
And if you still love me
Forgive me for everything
Forgive my sin
Forgive my crime
And don´t let me die...
Written by Mariana Cezar Oliveira
English For Ever School - 1999
TIME
I've been losing much time...
At once I've decided to face my life. I've decided not to
cry for the past and not think about the future. The
decision has been just one: living each day as being the
last day of my life.
My starting to act this way wasn't easy. First, I had to
exorcise all my ghosts. It was the worst part of it. Then, I had to start practicing how not to fear life.
I thought: if I fear, I lose time fearing. If I lose time I
don't live what I have to live. And my destiny has already called me twice...
And each day has been unique. Sometimes I can't change what I've done wrong, however I can do better next time.
Actually, it's important not to let life become repetitive, like rehearsing for a play.
Trying to do the right thing at the right time is always better.
Nowadays, after many failures and after I have come back to the starting point many times, I think I've found my way of living.
That isn't to say it's the right way. It's the one I've chosen, and I'm doing my best
because now I don't have much time.
Written by Maria Luiza - 1999
THE ROAD
Looking through the cars window he could see a blue sky and people walking on the streets. He saw a big cloud and a yellow bird flying and singing. People were smiling, it was Sunday. Everything looked perfect, but it wasnt, not for him.
Between the ideas of a new life and the happiness of a new job, he was very sad and his parents knew that. His father fought a lot for this job, the situation was hard for them, but that letter made him change his mood and believe in life again. His mother didnt care about leaving; all that she needed was a good supermarket for her body and a little church for her soul.
He was very disappointed, he knew that the job was important and maybe with money he could buy a guitar and begin a new life, but he was already missing many things. It had been 16 years living in that place. Friends, girls, places, moments, each moment brings him a little pain. Sometimes that town looked boring, but he knew that life sometimes is boring, too. The sky seems to smile of his pain, the road never looked so big, so bad.
He looks at his bag and gets a letter; it was a special one. She cried a lot when she wrote that. They had been together for a long time, but just had had the previous night to show all their love. She really showed him what happiness was and he already misses it.
His friends also wrote him a letter, and he would always carry it with him. As he would carry many crazy moments. He really enjoyed his life, but now all he has is a road and an unknown future. He liked challenges, but this was not the moment. Forgetting a story is not easy, and that was his story.
Life seems too hard All his dreams were broken with a letter and he was tied and hopeless. Maybe time will make him feel better again, maybe happy again, happy as he was in her arms, maybe the sadness will go away, but hell never forget the first time he felt pain in his life.
Written by Eduardo Chaves Sousa - 1999
ONE
There are some things in life
That happen just once
So you´d better take your chance
'Cause...
One life, is all we have
One love, is all we got
One friend, is all we need
One chance, is all we give
Don't ever let things slip out of your hands
You may not have another chance
Just fight for or against
Those things that are important or not to you
And try to make changes in your life
Sometimes you'll feel lonely and desperate
Sometimes you'll feel lost and helpless
Sometimes you'll think it's not worth it
And that will make you feel worthless
Just remember that...
One life, is all we have
One love, is all we got
One friend, is all we need
One chance, is all they give
Written by Mariana Cezar Oliveira
English For Ever School - 1999
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