16 on the Juvenile Block

By LS 

I just want to be young and going to my prom.

I want to be having fun with my friends at school and playin with the girls.

I want to change my life and not be on dis Juvenile Block.

Be out in the community with my little brothers and sisters.

I wish could go home and start all over so dat I don’t have to be 16 on a Juvenile Block.

 

2 Comments

  1. Becky on September 25, 2012 at 11:38 AM

    Hang in there LS!!

  2. Kwame on October 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM

    this a very nice poem that i would hang in my home

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