Who Am I
Tia C.
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My original poem is about my struggles as a biracial woman with no help to navigate the word. In this poem I talk about what I heard growing up. Starting with how I looked making me not fit in. I then talked about how people said I didn’t act a certain way, the way society expected me to act. There are so many expectations of how we are suppose to be and who we are, but at the end it’s your choice on who you are. It’s our experiences that shape us not our race, yet it can have an affect in the experience. While writing this poem, I thought about my experiences growing up and how because of how I was cared for, who or what I was missing in my life, changing that experience. As one of my first serious poems, there was a lot of flaws in the beginning, but after altering multiple times, it was finally done. My first poem was written to talk about the biracial experience, mixed with my own personal experience.
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Creativity means expressing yourself in an “outside the box” way. This means that finding unique ways to show how you feel and what you enjoy. Some creative ways I have expressed myself is through poetry, painting, and stick and poke tattoos.
