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Her Teen
February 10, 2019
Alone at thirteen,
To the land they call “free”
Is it too much for a teen?
They asked, but just let it be
Thirteen years they say
All for the August that year
Thirteen years, they shaped her like clay
So that she has no fear
Now at fifteen,
She still thinks of that day
Tears still had not been seen
Regret? She dare not to say
Time and times again,
Reminisces of “home”
She might go insane
Forward, she forces herself to roam
Maybe when she’s eighteen,
She can share this poem
Let her feeling be seen,
She can call here, home
© Ashley B., North Port, FL
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This poem is about my journey to the U.S at thirteen years old alone for my education. It talks about my past, my present and hopes to make the States my home in the future. It also shows the hardships and the loneliness that I had gone through at the age of thirteen without my parents being by my side.