When i write it gives me an escape

From all of my trials and tribulations

My writings take me to a special place

I started writing because my feelings always seemed to get in the way 

Of my life and what i was trying to do 

My family started looking at me in a different way

So i wrote......

I wrote about being a black girl 

Afraid to face the world 

Because of her skin color and her and her tightly wound curls

I wrote about being adopted to a family

who didnt accept me for who i was

and all i wanted to be

I began to write because i had no real childhood

Being forced to stay in the house 

Even when I was good

 I began to write because i didnt have the guts to tell

About the abuse i went through

Eventhough it was hell

Now Everything has changed.....

I continue to write because I have a life now

Fom having two jobs to being about to graduate

I now look at my life like  wow

I will write in the future because i will have so much to tell

About my long journey through life 

And my Escape from Hell