Day 30, Asked to Harvest and new favorite poem!

  Today I was asked to the Harvest dance by my good friend Jessica. She asked me in the coolest way so far!! I was sitting in my 4th period class, and all of this sudden this girl (not Jessica) came into the room, and she sets this orange plastic pumpkin on my desk filled with real live gold fish. It was kinda embarrassing in class, but it was AWESOME!! I loved it! The note attached to it said... "Out of all the fish in the sea, I choose you to go to Harvest with me!" - Jessica.
  I can't WAIT! Harvest is my favorite dance of all the dances held at Viewmont. It is going to be so much fun. I wonder what we are going to dress up as???

So... this is the pumpkin..

And these are the 15 gold fish inside!

  Also today in my Creative Writing class, my teacher read this poem to us. I really liked it, so I'm going to share it with you guys today. It is my new favorite poem.. Oh and by the way, the guy wrote it when he was 16 years old! CrAzY!!! :P

THE COLD WITHIN

By James Patrick Kinney

Six humans trapped by happenstance

In dark and bitter cold

Each one possessed a stick of wood,

Or so the story's told.

Their dying fire in need of logs,

The first woman held hers back.

For on the faces around the fire,

She noticed one was black.

The next man looking cross the way,

Saw one not of his church,

And couldn't bring himself to give

The fire his stick of birch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes,

He gave his coat a hitch.

Why should his log be put to use,

To warm the idle rich?

The rich man just sat back and thought

Of the wealth he had in store.

And how to keep what he had earned

From the lazy, shiftless poor.

The black man's face bespoke revenge

As the fire passed from sight,

For all he saw in his stick of wood

Was a chance to spite the white.

The last man of this forlorn group

Did naught except for gain

Giving only to those who gave

Was how he played the game.

The logs held tight in death's still hands

Was proof of human sin.

They didn't die from the cold without,

They died from the cold within.

  Isn't that so cool. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :)