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I am from

January 20, 2012
By Eli_Conjunction PLATINUM, Philadephia, Pennsylvania
Eli_Conjunction PLATINUM, Philadephia, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
Forgive and forget


I am from a family of love and hatred
I am from a father that thinks I am a failure
I am from a mother that loves me
I am from a family that parties and struggles
I am from Philly where sirens are music to my ears
I am from Philly as a young man trying to get into a good school to succeed in life
I am from a family who argues and fights every time they get on the phone
I am from a father that loves and make’s me feel like I should not be alive
I am from a place where kids tease me of my likes and color
I am from a place where guns clang and bang and kill the sons of mothers that cry for their babies
I am from crying every time I think of grand and great grand mom and my cousin
I am from where people call me black boy in a mean way
But I am from mostly a proud black family and I am a regular kid hoping that my family would get back together the way it was when I was a baby
I am from where people do suicide all because they can’t get what they won’t
But the place I am from really from is me
The End


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this is the real i am from

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on Jan. 29 2012 at 2:53 pm
Eli_Conjunction PLATINUM, Philadephia, Pennsylvania
24 articles 0 photos 11 comments

Favorite Quote:
Forgive and forget

thanks i thought so to

Aaka131 SILVER said...
on Jan. 27 2012 at 8:28 pm
Aaka131 SILVER, Dunbar, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

Really good poem I like it:)