I want to be the bad girl
the wild and crazy one
I want to be the enthusiastic chick
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Erika, I like your poem. Obviously its in two parts perhaps in conflict but maybe not? We are different people to different people at different places and times. The first time I heard this I was amazed. I had thought that I could be the same to everyone, whatever all that means. Erika, you have a talent in, whats the word? transforming, your experiences into poetry or your imaginary situations. You use understandable words, what I call Anglo words, short and direct, easy to read, as if you had the reader in mind a bit. You might want to experiment with longer sentences, maybe some words with the same vowel or consonant sounds. Keep writing.
The last line is my favorite part. I really see the conflict there.
Erika I love that you open the doors of your life and let us look in and the way you decribe growing up here is the process we (or most of us experience) . The change from dependency on others to responsabily for ourselves is the passage into adulthood. Welcome aboard - may the path you tread always bring you peace.