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TITLE (EDIT)
Turning Off The Lights |
DESCRIPTION
What happens when you turn off the lights?
[123 words] |
TITLE KEYWORD
Crime |
AUTHOR
Jahri Ann |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
I was born and raised in the beautiful island of Jamaica for 12 years. Then I lived in New York City for 3 years, until I somehow ended up back in Jamaica and lived there for 5 years. (By now you should have guessed my age) I am currently a college student in the US majoring in sociology and a minor in English. I love writing very much but since I returned to the US I have found it rather difficult to re-ignite that flame and passion that I had for writing. Hopefully as I post my work in Storymania, I can receive constructive criticism, or reviews of my work. I welcome negative reviews of my work because I feel this can help me to make my writing better. Things like, “this poem sucks!” or “I don’t understand anything you are talking about in this writing,” I welcome with open arms.
I have traveled around, and have numerous experiences as it relates to the environment in which I’ve lived in. I admire diversity and culture, and hopefully someday, my admiration and interest in the various ways in which people live their lives can influence me more profoundly to reach out to people. I feel that writing is a way to start and gives me a chance to cut across borders and transcend across the continents, across ethnicity and race. Especially since I attend a university that is historically white, and 90% of the students are white middle-class Americans and I myself is of African descent. My passion for diversity increases the more I am in this kind of environment.
[April 2009] |
AUTHOR'S E-MAIL ADDRESS
destinyalready@yahoo.com |
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (10)
Denied (Poetry) The feelings of a girl child when her mother abandoned her in the 3rd world, and how the child felt under the govt. system that provided no justice or security based on this abandonment. [115 words] [Erotic]
Dwellings On The Hills (Poetry) - [129 words] [Drama]
I'm Lazy. (Poetry) This is about how a person can be in conflict with certain human emotions. I gave human emotions a more literal approach. Written when I was 14. [350 words] [Mind]
Jamaican Youngster (Poetry) The Jamaican education system and it's negative effects on youngsters. [273 words] [Crime]
Liberia (Short Stories) About a girl that lived in New York but now lives in Jamaica and is appalled at the delapidated culture around her in school, she doesn't fit in, she doesn't belong. Now we've all been through this. [2,260 words] [Teenage]
Russle (Poetry) About an innocent man that got gunned down during an attempted armed robbery. [225 words] [Crime]
She Bawled (Poetry) The hurt of a woman as her love's life was taken away by a violent act [179 words]
Spencer (Short Stories) Spence’s life is filled with ups-and-downs. Police is after him, circumstances keep arising. He is involved in drug trade, extortion from multiple business owners, money laundering, organized crime, r... [4,984 words]
The Mystify One I Watched In The Heat Of The Night (Poetry) Is it just my imagination. A poem about imaginative attraction. [125 words]
What's Still Worst (Poetry) Inspiring people to be more conscious about what's happening in the world, and to play their part in bettering it through unity, and hope. [131 words]
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Turning Off The Lights
Jahri Ann
After 1000 nights it seems
My hands are in the air
I will no longer fight
No more
I’ve released my weapon
I’ve been wounded so much
and bled so much, cried so much
kicked in the chest, thrown in the dirt
I’ve been mentally and physically
Abused
Go ahead handcuff me
The ignorance of this system has defeated me
give me no future
rather to see me fail
fail!
So they can mock
while I tell my tale
to the world of the ghetto youth heaven
these people everywhere
walk around with a question mark plastered to their face
they do not want to take it off
they let the system defeat them
fell into its traps
it’s mental illusions
slavery
even though I am handcuffed
I may have been defeated but
Defeated have not been defeated
I will rise again!
*written at age 14
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE
© 2005 Jahri Ann |
STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
April 2009 |
NUMBER OF TIMES TITLE VIEWED
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