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Student Poetry

26 May 2015 / Comments Off / in Southland Sings Blog/by Ann Noriel

Here are a few poems from our incarcerated students who are in the Orange County Department of Education’s  ACCESS Program.

My New Home

These are song lyrics by a female student who wanted to write about the new home that she will create for herself once she is released. A home full of peace and joy.

Reminiscing, smiling

wondering where I’ll go

on the sandy beach

the warm sand under my toes

I don’t want to fly home

 

let the waves sway me

away from home

bring me to a place

filled with joy

that will be my new home

that will be my new home

 

Why Didn’t I Listen?

We saw a lot of growth in this male student, he was ready to make some big changes in his life.

Why didn’t I listen to the

street lights when they told me

to go home at night?

Why didn’t I listen to my mother,

when she told me to do right?

Why didn’t I listen to my parole officer

when he told me to stay out of the hood?

Why didn’t I listen to the judge

when he said, “I’ll give you a chance.”

Yet I knew in advance that living a life of sin is playing a game

I’ll never win. I know I’m smart I have a brain

this jail routine is driving me insane.

I think it’s time for a change

before my life goes down the drain.

My freedom is what I’m missing

but why, why didn’t I listen?

 

Sheep

These song lyrics speak about this female student’s life in prison                                                                                                            

The paint you left started to chip

The lies you speak fall off your lips

And I know I tend to let it show

Paper wasted loss of tree

Carved out log set out to sea

But I’ll save the human race

Without leaving a trace of me

 

Chorus

Well I’ve spent days counting sheep

Who won’t shut up won’t let me sleep

I know the hill you run is steep

But it doesn’t excuse the life you choose

Or why all your talk is cheap

 

Twenty girls locked up so tight

Inside a box with angles right

Eyes cover the wall, vampires in the halls

On the outside looking in

We’re the ones who never win

To them we look all the same

So we must be alike in some way

 

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