Holiday 3000

It might be on Pluto, it might be on mars

Would it stay on earth? Or would it reach the stars?

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We'll not be waking up on the noise the clock makes

But on the creepy sound of volcanoes and earthquakes

Our breakfast will include burnt coffee and beef cakes

And later, we'll be swimming in hot lava lakes

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We'll be taking our tans on the surface of the sun

Getting toasted with burnt hair is not much fun

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In the evening we'll gather with aliens and a little yucky snack

With a new upgraded squeaky sound singing bird band

It'll be one of the days to wish the Beatles were back

And if only I was watching TV with a yummy big Mac

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Next day, my friend sets me up with a blind date

My hair is not coming down cos of the non-gravity state

But then it turns out my date is a freaky looking thing

I spent all the evening wishing he doesn't sting

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In the night I discover there's a machine to what to dream

I want to know how a 1000 years ago holiday would seem

It has the blue sea, the blue sky, seems like a new birth

It's familiar, I love it! I want to go back to earth

Shereen Amarin

59 Seconds

Burnt down house, and tears in his eyes

raged spirit, grieved heart, fallen skies

color of blood painted the horizon by sunrise

choking with taste of blood, unheard cries

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There he was empty handed on his knees

begging for her life, drowning with his tears

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And there she was with a gun pointed at her head

turning white, scared, dizzy between alive and dead

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Millions of thoughts crashed into his brain

any second her life could go down the drain

now clouds are crying big drops of rain

move away this gun, and ease my pain

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But that soldier had orders and he didn't care

for the poor boy's best friend's precious life to spare

no mercy in his soul, cold hearted stare

in one hand the gun, the other pulled her hair

his finger close to the trigger, she gave up to despair

and in a moment no one knew what's fair and unfair

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The bullet went through stealing her life away

last tear on her cheek that burned on its way

millions of words she wanted to say

to her best friend running hopelessly to where she lay

holding her close under a sky so grey

whispered the words " you're here to stay "

crossed hearts promises vanished " come what may "

for him it was death itself, for others just another day...

By: Shereen Akram Odeh Amarin

The Wind Carries a Letter To a Perfect Dad

I visited Europe, and now I'm in America

I flew up from my place in Asia

but no matter where I go, or no matter what i do

I would never ever find a dad like you

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I'd love to wake up on your lovely voice

than to wake up on the clock's noise

I'd want to see your smiley face

than to see a heaven or a grace

I'd rather pick your tireful demands

than to be treated like a princess on the lands

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Try to spin the whole world

a father like you, nobody can afford

and if you don't believe me, ask the lord

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Because I see you in the stars every night

and I see you in the sun with its light

I see you in my pillow when I hold it tight

I see you in my dreams black and white

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No matter how far I am from you, I would always be happy to know,

that the same sun that brightens my day...also brightens yours

Shereen Amarin

Wish Upon a Twinkling Star

How does it feel? How does it feel to be out there…how does it feel to look down on earth? Did your heart beat fast when your foot first touched the surface of the moon? Did you have goose bumps as you stared at the black space and wondered what's beyond further more? Did earth look peaceful from up there while wars ate people alive? Did it feel like a dream? Neil Armstrong, did you feel close to god the most in your entire life?

I sit in the night staring at the sky, at the millions of the stars, at the bright moon, hoping that maybe a comet might pass by, so I could wish for my infinite wishes, or ask my endless questions. Is there a life out there somewhere? Do they look down at us? Do they want to be friends with us? Is it really eternal…doesn't it ever stop? This vast black blanket varnished with countless stars and planets…Isn't there an end? Those wonders keep wandering in people's minds, some people don't really think a lot about it, but other ambitious people look no where but upon the sparkling stars and wish to reach the sky, to that place no man has ever been to. I'm one of those people Neil, and I envy you…Yes, I envy you! I want to be dressed like an astronaut; I want to touch the sky, I want to fly, to Mars, to Saturn, to the moon I always talked to, though it has never answered back. I miss it each month when it leaves…and I love it when it's full, smiling down on me…

Is it scary when the rocket first shoots? What do you see when you first leave earth and be welcomed by the space? What do you exactly see at that moment? When you leave blue skies and get surrounded by black all around. How does it feel when there's no gravity? Do you just float?

We're talking about a girl of dreams, I'm always running away from reality, I don't face facts, I believe in fairytales! And when I'm not dreaming asleep…I have daydreams; the sky, and that I might someday fly, my future, will I ever be something? I want to look through a telescope, I never did! I want to travel the world, and I've only been on a plane twice. My dreams are so enormous to fit on this earth, I can't handle them, they just keep getting stronger, I want to make them true, and they demand lots of work. But I always look at the sky, "if one man can do it, another can do it"…I believe in myself…and I don't want to be another grave without a name. I want to be remembered for many years after I die. I'm looking upon the stars, I'm wishing for dreams. God only knows if I'll ever become what I always wanted to be, Someone who dared to dream in a world, that people bordered, someone who went up there looking for another planet, hoping so maybe, just maybe people would stop fighting over land, someone who believed there's much more in this everlasting life than live and die, someone who rode comets, and touched planets…someone special…unique…someone…someone like you…

By: Shereen Akram Amarin 10th Grade Jordan

A Day In My Dreams

By: Shereen Akram Odeh Amarin 2005

I wake up with breakfast in bed
There's pancakes and well toasted bread
The sun rises to color the sky so red
As my roommate wishes me a bright day ahead

I go into my walking closet to choose
Millions of tops and skirts as I cruise
I feel like putting on my jeans and my comfy white shoes
But it hits my head I have a trial and I can't afford to lose

So I put on my lucky black tight dress to win the deals
and my tiny scarlet scarf as silky as it feels
Finally, my killing hot red high heels
My look is breathtaking, just count the eyes it steals

I sit in my office, drinking coffee, drawing my fashion designs
Suddenly, I have a flash back when I was a child following the signs
Here i am now, my dream accomplished, no one to draw the lines
I smile to the sky, and right back at me, the sun shines

My boss calls for a meeting and starts bragging about my work
He decides to send me on a trip to design in New York
Then my own plane flies me all the way to Florence
Rest in Venice, then continue to my dream city Paris

I'm so excited about this trip, the my cellphone rings
My lawyer reminds me of the most important among all things

My trial's in half an hour, I don't if i'm thrilled
to meet my very hot lawyer, win the case or be killed

As usual, he wins the trial in fifteen minutes, he's great
I know who to choose, he's the best in the state
Then he uses his victory in the court as a bate
As he wickedly asks me out on a date

Dinner on the beach, on the candle light
We dance under the stars until midnight

Then he drops me off to the radio station
My office has the best view in the best location
L.A lights in the night is a real temptation
I'm on air, superstar gossip, music information

My lemo's driving me back home, I'm sippin' on some red wine
My roomy's happy, she tells me about her day, I tell her about mine
It was a long long busy day, but everything turned fine
Going through each day is human, but how I reached this is devine

Birthday...

Dearest of all Dad,

You might have thought that i had forgotten to write you one of these letters on your lovely birthday...but i haven't...you're the first on my mind. I love you dad...you're the first on my list(oh...i guess i took this thing from you too...hehehe...i learn from my big sis...so wat?) And if you asked me how long you will be the first in my heart...i wouldn't know what to say...coz i really don't know which is longer...forever or always??!!

Dad...i know you only push me too hard so you wouldn't see me fall...and you push even harder to see me the best...I might not be the best or the first in the world but i know i'm the best for you...and what makes me even greater is the pride of being your daughter...and dad, I swear, i have studied a lot in 12 years, but the only things that haven't flew off my mind are the mistakes i've done...these are carved deep...and i know i'll never make them again...Always remember, that i do my best...but i can't deny some things are hard...but i do my best to see you smile!

**Dad, now that years are passing quickly through the clock ticking fast...you might feel everyone's getting older...but in our hearts you're as young as a blooming flower in spring...as young as the heart inside of you...a jumping heartof a child...a great heart of 61 years of wisdom and experience...you're the best...i look up to you...i admire you...you're my role model...and when i grow up...i want to be like you...although i know i can't measure up...but i'll try...

Happy Birthday Dad! have some lovely time...

Shereen & The Family...2006

The Last Goodbye...

It's almost like yesterday that i held mum's hand and walked proudly to my first day of school...the excitement of that day and each day that followed still jumps in my heart. It's almost like yesterday that i got my first punishment for talking in class or forgetting to do my homework. It's almost like yesterday when i made my first friend, or when i got in my first fight. Twelve years have passed as quick as the leaves rushed to fall from all the trees in a pale autumn, and now, in a blink of an eye, the last leaf is falling...it's the last year, the last month, and now the last day. It's such a harsh fact, such a difficult way...that now we're actually kissing school days goodbye! I don't want to say goodbye...I want to stay young forever...but of all things that life can give us, reality comes stealing time away...Kindly enough, it leaves us with only the memories of the beautiful most amazing seconds that we shared through all the hard times, through the pain, the laughter, and the tears...

Now that it's the end, i regret the days i wished school didn't exist...and i treasure each and every moment, and the blessing of the wonderful angels I've met along this long journey...I wish i could tell everybody how much i'll miss them now that we're going on our seperate ways...now that we reached the end of this stream with the millions of different roads...For the first time, we're actually making an important decision that our future counts on...and it gives me so much pain to think we are no more kids running in the playground chasing each other with no worries on our small minds...it hurts me to think we are no more the teenagers with the stupid stories and the silly problems planning for chaos and rebels against the grown ups...Now we are the grown ups we never wanted to be...now we are the adults with our independent minds...Maybe it's a good thing to feel a little free in making our own decisions...But will there ever be teachers following us non stop, reminding us of the classes we always forget, controlling us when we lose our minds and our ways...Who will be there to guide us through the hard times? Who will be there to remind us everytime we forget? Who will be there to make sure we don't fall...to hold our hand and lead us back when we are mistaken? Who will keep our mouths shut when we talk nonsense and never seem to stop? But most of all...Who will be there to draw the borders and keep us safe now that we are so small in a world so big???...It gives me the fright to think that we are now like little drops of water in an ocean so wide...It's a scary huge world...so are we ready? Are we ready to walk out the gates and face real life? Are we ready to let go? Let go of our classrooms, of our desks...Let go of all the corners around the school, the stories each step and corner tells. Are we reallly ready to let go of the hand of all the teachers that led us through painful and boring classes we never wanted to attend, and which we never knew could brighten our thoughts? Are we ready to let go of all our friends...all the memories of running away from classes? of all the times we planned hand by hand for something great to let us be heard...Are we ready to let go and say our last goodbye knowing that this time when we walk outside the gate we're never ever coming back?

I'm left alone now confused with all these thoughts and wonders that haunted me day and night...I wonder if it's too late now to wish for just one another day, just one last day with all the people i love...One last math class...one last break...one last tear...and one last laugh...I wonder if it's too late now to tell everybody i hurted i'm sorry, and to all my teachers i'll miss you...and to all my friends i love you...

I hope all our words of friendship don't just fade with the sunset of our last day in school...I hope that everybody knows that it might really be the last second now passing through the clock...but that it definetly does not mean that this is the end of our devotion and love for each other. It hurts me...it kills me...it eats me inside that it's all over now...but no matter what...and through all the phases of our lives we will be friends now...and until that cruel clock stops ticking!!!

PEACE Y'ALL