KarMel Scholarship 2008

 

Poem

“My Life”

By Tamika Wright

 

 

 

Desciption of Submission:a poem about my life” - Tamika

 

 

 

It was hard for me to grow up not knowing about me

It was hard for me to show up to a life that wasn’t me

 

Looking at the wrong gender as if it were right

But I am a girl I know this cant be right

 

My mother said god made woman for men

So if I don’t like them then should I be born again

 

She said that it was wrong and she would never approve

And If I practice those type of things that I would have to move

 

So I kept it to my self and never shared the news

But at the age of fourteen there was nothing left to do

 

So I stood up and said it I’ll do what I have to I am a lesbian

Ask me if I like girls and I will say yes I do

 

This was more than a situation this was my proclamation

I felt good but at the same time my heart was racing

 

I had to move out so I stayed with nana but after 2 months things got better

She asked me to come home so then my life was better

 

Six years later our love still gets greater she says god I don’t understand her

But thank you god that I made her

 

 

 

 

 

 

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