The+Things+We+Carry

v By Craig Byrd
 * The things I carry in my pocket**

I carry many different things in my pocket. I carry my house key so I can get in and out the house

the place I rest my head and my heart. I carry my phone because I keep track with the time, the restlessness of my reality, and to check who’s calling and texting me.

I carry lip balm in case my lips start cracking; the wind trying to keep my mouth shut where no one else can.

I carry a pen just in case I see someone I can have something to write it down with like writing of this type, poetry forced upon me by my teacher. I carry all those things because they’re like the important traveling things I need; a day with me in my life.

THE THINGS I CARRY  by Cruz Rosado Well, I carry many things like my glasses with my cell phone. The clothes with the draws I wear my money and watch. I keep the time always in my head because I always try to be ahead.

My Mom smoking cigarettes, it kills my mind and soul and it should because she’s all I have. I desperately think about it and try to stay focused, then my uncle’s ‘death’ came along and I cant even see him one last time before he enters the earth he came from. “Sad so Sad” because he went allway one day he’s here, another he’s gone with the wind, and I can’t even pay my respects to all the dead now. I carry his words in my mind and in heart.

__ The Things I Carry! __  by Kassandra Amaral The things I carry Are necessary; I hold My cell phone, and my lip-gloss. In my book bag I carry my notebooks and my school supplies necessary tools for education. I carry my glasses because it’s the only way I can see my future, The only way I can see my daughter discovering new things. When I think of my silver ring with the pink stone I think of my grandfather in Puerto Rico, wanting him to come back home and remember that I still carry the ring he gave me. I wear it everyday even when I went to high school, when I did crazy stuff with my old friends, where I always Carried my book bag. These are the things I carry in my mind. **__ The Things I Carry __** The things I carry are everyday items,  They make great use and are very important to me,   But there’s more… My purse used to be exciting and screamed CARRY ME! You would see movies tickets, concert tickets, club promotions, 21 & up wristbands, dinner receipts, mall receipts, etc. Now you don’t see any of that. My purse is empty. Now when I open my wallet, I’m disappointed, I used to see big bills of cash shouting out **Independence** ! But now I see small bills crying out dependent. Sometimes it saddens me, a good sadness though, It makes me wanna push and fight harder for the things I used to see, And start that future I’ve been waiting to see, And I will, I definitely will… By: Madazia Martinez The Things I Carry by Reyneiry Perez The things I carry are weightless, but heavy on the mind. In my purse I carry too many things:  my perfume,   my business card   and my babies’ pictures. I carry money;  sometimes it is more than enough,   sometimes it is never enough,   I carry it because society says so. I carry many things;  the necessary and the not so emotional   and material the heavy and burdensome. My phone carries my information;  without it I would be lost. Instant information and instant communication  in a world with only seconds to spare. Instant is necessary! I carry stress;  sometimes it is because of my babies,   sometimes it is because the house stuffs ;   no matter what, there is always stress. I carry perfume, lip balm, makeup and  eyes drops for the days that I don’t feel well. I carry memories long gone  of people I’ve almost forgotten;   places that I want to visit that only I do in my mind. I carry my backpack that carries  my books,   note books from school,   too much stuff is in my backpack. I carry a bracelet that I remember my mother;  memories that we have together   with my babies and other family. I don’t want to forget that  because that is the only thing I have to carry one thing of my mother.