TONIGHT WAS COLD.
The radiator in my room broke.
I had nothing to cover me but a newspaper.
TODAY I AM SO TIRED.
I stayed awake too late watching TV.
I couldn’t get comfortable on the park bench last night.
LIFE IS UNFAIR.
My mom won’t buy me that new sweater I really want.
I ripped a huge hole in my only shirt.
PEOPLE CAN BE SO CRUEL.
These girls started a rumor about me and it spread throughout the whole school.
A man laughed in my face when I asked for a quarter today.
I CANT WAIT TILL I AM OLDER.
I can go to college in California and get away from my parents.
I can get an actual job and maybe have a place to live.
This two voice poem is about the issue of homelessness. It comes from the perspective of a regular girl in high school or middle school and a girl that is about the same age who is homeless and trying her best to make ends meet. It is meant to show how the two girls both have similar thoughts on life or people but their problem is reflected differently. The regular girl experiences problems like fights with her mother or idle rumors, while the other teenage girl lives out a life of poverty and each day faces the issue of money and shelter and her wellbeing. What I meant to show by writing this was that these two girls may be the same age the same intelligence level and quite similar in the aspects of their personality, but the regular is oblivious to issues that the other girl faces and doesn’t think of how hard people like her have it when she complains. The ending is there to show that each girl along with their troubles has dreams, and while one girl thinks of a likely future that is soon to be, the other one dreams of something that has only the slightest bit of possibility.
That was a really good poem. I liked how each person had the same thoughts for each topic, but one of them didn't know how lucky they are compared to the other person. This happens all the time, when somebody thinks they have bad luck based on how they live, but they don't realize how bad some other people have it.
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