Letter to Future Child

Dear future child,
I am your mother and I am writing you as a senior in high school. I am getting ready for a lot of hard decisions, like what to do with the rest of my life and where to go for college. I still am undecided and this is my second semester, I have a fall back plan for community college in case a university falls through and I can’t decide. So just know that you don’t have to know what you want to do immediately. You always have options and time. I play softball now, but tried many sports over the years, there are so many things you can do. I hope you will turn out better than me because every parent wants better for their child. Mostly I want you to have as much fun as possible, I want to let you do things that I never got to do. I don’t want you to look at your childhood when you grow up and regret it. It’s hard to predict what exactly the world will be like when you come around. Right now there are so many bad things in the world, but don’t get me wrong there are a lot of good things too and the United States is making progress every year. We just elected the first African American president that is a big step as you will learn throughout school.

Love always,
Mother

Childhood Fear

Do you remember what you were afraid of when you were a child? Was it monsters? Or swimming? What about getting lost in a big store, all by yourself? When I was little I was afraid of the dark, but just during the night. I was fine if I knew it was day outside and I was in a dark place, but it was something about it being night outside and me being in a dark place. When I would go to bed, I always would put my covers over my head because that made me feel safe. I used to let myself think that if I had the covers over my head, no one or nothing could find me. I would not go to the bathroom during the night I would just hold it until the morning because I was afraid something would get me if I were to step a foot outside of my bed in the darkness. I absolutely hated the dark, I always felt like there was something there just waiting for me.

Definition of a Poem- January 9th, 2009

My definition of a poem is a piece of writing someone uses to express their feelings, or past experiences. There are so many different emotions that people feel and of they are writers or like to write, they will discuss the things they feel. Such as happiness, sadness, anger, love, hate, and physically hurting. They can also write little instances in their life they have experienced. It can be a big or little event that has taken place. For example we read a poem during class where a mother wrote a poem about her son growing up. This is just one example of the many things a poem can be about.