In the beginning it was nothing I could think of to help me control my anger. I tried to look only to find things that could help …show more content…
One of the things he told me was to write out my feeling in poem. He knows that I like to write stories and songs, so he told me to us that to my advantage against all the “anger and pain” in my heart in his words. At first it was working until I found out that not only was my family struggling back home, but I was falling off in my school work. I felt so helpless because I felt like I was being punished. If I helped my family my grades slipped due to me missing class. If I focused on my grades my family would tear apart little by little. Being the only one in my family to go to college means no failure, but seeing my momma struggle, finding out my niece and sister in-law was being evicted out there house, it became clear what I had to do. But everything back fired and the anger came right back into my life along with the