ENGLEWOOD Reginae Echols 11th Grade • George Westinghouse College Prep
I bet you looked at the title and probably tried to guess what I would say I bet you thought it was going to be about something along the lines of.... Police brutality or maybe how the men in my ’hood gang bang And yeah I could mention the fact that they sell drugs on the street corner every day But I’ll leave those stories to the news, Since those are the only stories that they seem to put into the public's minds anyway Besides even if I did, you probably wouldn’t care So instead I’ll paint the picture of a place That’s heavily underfunded, yet rich in every way We’ve been given nothing but darkness However, what the world seems to have forgotten is.... That stars can only shine in darkness anyway We have so little, so we don’t take anything for granted We might seem poor and broken to the public But we’re still living so we consider our lives to be fantastic
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