I am poem

“I AM”
I am the mascara and eyeliner running down a young girls face
I wonder why people make others cry rivers
I hear myself crying and yelling in the inside like a new born baby
I see her mother yelling and screaming, making me come down her own daughters face
I want her to stop, but now it’s too late I am running slowly and steadily down her face
I am the mascara and eyeliner running down a young girls face

I pretend not to listen to her cruel words breaking me like shattering glass
I feel my cold, wet self running down her cheek
I touch her lips as I make my way slowly down
I worry her mother might see my transparent and lonesome self
I cry “stop, your words stab her heart like a knife”
I am the mascara and eyeliner running down a young girls face

I understand her worry of motherly love but
I say the young girl loves her mother no matter what
I dream of them together as a happy family so
I try to make it happen by showing my self
I hoped it would happen someday but right now
I am the mascara and eyeliner running down a young girls face

Maria's Journey

Story:

We start our story with Maria being deported back to Mexico from Phoenix. All Maria really wants to be back with her family in Chicago, Illinois. Two days late Maria tries to cross the border by climbing a fence but she gets caught by the police with ten other people. Three or four days later she has to cross again. This time she has made it to Phoenix but has to cross the freeway she is very scared but if she wants to see her family again she has to do it. On her way throw the freeway she is caught again. This time she returns to her own house where she is completely alone. She seats and thinks about her family and a way to get to them and started crying because she missed them very much. She decide she well try again in a week. When the week past she made her way to the woman in charge of passing people throw the border. This woman give her documents to go throw the border but by airplane. Maria was very happy that she can finally see her family. She went to the airport got on the plain and made it all the way to Phoenix. Finally she makes her way to a local burger king and waits 5 hours for her family. When they get there she starts crying and hugs her kids. While her husband pays for her trip here.