Home

This poem was written during the Power Writing session.  The program is highlighted in the film To Be Heard.  In that film, three teenagers from the South Bronx bond together over poems and the process of writing.  Their poems explore their lives, dreams, and the challenges their face.  The film inspired me to write a poem, entitled Home, about where I live.  Enjoy.

Born and raised in Manhattan
Loved by two parents
Live with three other kids
But no grandparents..
I don't call this home
But it's the closest thing to it
I try to make it alright
But some how there's nothing to it.
Home is being welcomed
sometimes I don't feel welcomed at all.
Home is being happy
but no one is happy at all.
All I hear is yelling, and I'm
tired of the fuse and fight.
Home is being loved with all their might..

To Be Heard A Documentary Film

Watching the movie To Be Heard, made me see a different point of view in any teenagers life.  The film follows three teenagers from the South Bronx and their participation in the writing program called Power Writes.  It's something I have seen before, but not as many teenagers would speak up and say what's going on in their lives because no one needs to know what's really going on in their life.  You speak when you feel like it's time to tell someone that you're being abused, being in a confused life, being in a family were you have no one to lean on, or to turn too.  Watching these three teenagers become best friends and relating to what's going on in each others life, can make a huge impact in other teenagers life and create a wonderful friendship.  The tone and the way the film was being made it was upsetting.  The setting of the film took place where they lived, the school they went to, and what was going on around them. Watching Karina getting abused at home while trying to take care of her other siblings, watching Pearl fear of not getting into a good college, and Anthony who's trying to get out the life he's in and his only escape is by writing poems, that's his only freedom.  They can and I believe that they will make a HUGE impact in any teenagers life, to see what they went through and have the same life as them will inspire to change their whole life around.  This documentary film had sad tone to it, and the images made me believe as if I was there with them. I like the idea that both teachers Roland and Amy help them try to make something better out of their life and go on to doing something so much better with their lives.