**The Sky**

I get to school just early enough to watch the sunrise. Parking in the same spot everyday toward the east portion of the burning pink sky. Such beauty never ceases to amaze me, God has created a flawless sky. And each day I watch the sun consume the clouds like fire. If only I could walk as far as the horizon and see its wonders magnified. I've always had a fascination with the sky, it is a very hard task for me to walk without throwing my head back to gaze at the clouds that silently watch my every move. In all seriousness, I struggle to walk like a normal person, I struggle to keep my head straight directly in front of me to watch where I'm going. In fact, if I could walk with my head pointed toward the sky all the time I would, because the sky to me resembles the oceans waves so very therapeutic and calming. Driving when the sun is setting is a difficult task for me as well. With everything within me I want to pull over on the bridge connecting I-94 and Southfield freeway and watch the sky transform. Even at night the sky puts on a show that the world often ignores; if no bugs existed I'd lay back on the grass at night and fall asleep watching hundreds of stars glisten above me. How close they seem, yet to far for my fingers to reach.
Simply watching the clouds swiftly float through the sky as if an invisible hand is pushing them makes me smile. It makes me wish that I could sit on its fluffy surface, then when the day is done sink through its fogginess like a raindrop back down to the ground where it first found me watching.

by:~Ja'Nise W.~

Friendship

As we sit at opposite ends of the world
I wonder whether our thoughts coincide into one complete sentence
If we saw each other right now would our eyes connect
Or would I be the girl in his hindsight...
One that he could easily forget
I don't search for marriage, I do not even seek love.
I don't want what everyone has
I want what most refuse to get....friendship
I don't know who you are
Honestly, I can hardly define me
I won't sing that lame line that repeats itself
In multiple love songs claiming that you complete me
Still, I find myself thinking of you
A person I don't even know
You are like my own personal foreign land
I'd travel so far to be with you, although I have no idea who you are
All I know, all I feel is that you will not reject me
We'll grow into the deepest friendship
And sail the waves of laughter
We'll know one another so well, that forever we will
Want to dwell in each others company.
If we saw each other right now would he feel the same
Or do I make up fantasies to comfort loneliness
Create false friendships to bury pain?!

by:Ja'Nise Washington Orginally written 10/7/2009