Morecambe Bay
By Karen Walsh, Lucan Community College, Dublin
Last thoughts last words
Family and friends.
Will anyone know what happened?
Will we be found?
Who will be blamed?
Little money
Collecting shellfish
Drowned
Could have been avoided
Unlike the tsunami
Natural disaster
Big news story for big death toll
Shells – in the news for a few days
Not as important.
Human Rights
By Michael Goode, Garbally College
Today a girl in Dublin
And a girl in Africa
Have something in common
This is the same from birth to death
Supposing each one is charged with a crime
Each is innocent
They will each be treated differently
Although their rights are the same.
Just Because Someone Hears What You Said
By Alison Deegan, Lucan Community College, Dublin
Everyone is born free and equal
I may be young but I know that is a lie
The rich only get richer and the poor get poorer
Sold into slavery and left to die
When I was even younger
I heard a phrase
Don’t judge a book by its cover
Back in those days I believed it
These days I try
But judgement pollutes my mind
Everybody blames
The state of the world
On somebody else
Is anyone strong enough
To shoulder the blame
The truth hurts
People are making it worse
Denying themselves
What they are owed
Sometimes it’s down
To inadequate education
Knowledge can be power indeed
But ignorance oh it is bliss
When you’re not missing out
Endless is this vicious cycle
Like the longest day or night
You count the news till the terror ends
Filled with fear
Troubled and sleepless with fright
There’s no way out
For those who enter
Locked it’s sealed only uncontrolled entry
The lock is locked the key is lost
And the cells are overloading
From doing no wrong
Lost and bewildered
In the cold I wonder
If it hurts to be that old
To have no life to have no home
Wandering the streets
Unfulfilled and alone
The nights are long
When you don’t sleep
No prized possessions for you to keep
A rug or a blanket
That’s usually it
But they live they live
They manage they get by.
Just because someone hears what you said
Doesn’t mean you’re being heard
Human Rights
By Paul Whelahan, Garbally College
The world is changing every day
New inventions, new technology, you name it
But thank God that one thing will always be the same
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Where our international security is protected.
Path to Freedom
By George Moony, Garbally College
I am free for free
I didn’t pay a penny
But like many it can be taken away
Still I won’t go down without a fight
I am due a fair trial
And yet, I am in denial.
Child Labour
By Ronan Campbell, Lucan Community College, Dublin
In town one day
There was a boy begging
I saw a man walk up
And take the money out of the boy’s container
The boy objected.
The man said “Shut up kid”
And pushed him.
The boy fell over
The man walked on
A cruel smile on his face
Child labour slave labour
Children forced to fight in armies
Children who died in the tsunami
Second Chance
By Eamonn Noone, Garbally College
Everyone has a right to a second chance
Even students when they don’t have their homework done
Now I have my second chance
So I better use it wisely!
Equality
By Niall Carty, Garbally College
There are many differences between people in this world today
And many people make this get in the way
And when people speak out against regimes and conflict of rights
They are punished unfairly and that can’t be right
Everybody should have the right to speak
And let everybody know what they think.
Amnesty
By Aidan Monaghan, Mullingar Community College
A story about a group of
Mighty people who fight hatred of
Negative thought, murder and guns
Enemy of freedom of the
State, inside and out,
Terrorist against hope, hope for
You, me, everyone, of a happy world
That’s what Amnesty means to me!
Disasters
By Niall McDowell, Lucan Community College, Dublin
How many were found?
How many are gone?
Charity work, boxes in shops
No hope, only despair.
Survivors’ amazing stories.
Read the papers watch the news
Hear the estimates send your bit.
