The Reason Why

This poem was written as part of a Power Writers Workshop in my Mediastorm Class.  The program was highlighted in the film To Be Heard.

The reason why I make sure that every night I go to sleep thinking about you
the reason why I have to leave my house on the weekends
the reason why I go to school, even when my eyes are half way open
the reason why I scream,fight and put up a show
I scream FUCK YOU, you scream DO YOU
The reason why we break up then make up
The Reason I Look Into your eyes and I can tell a story
The reason why I stay up on the phone until 530am to wake up at 7am
Sometimes I look up at the stars and think about how long it's going to last
but, the reason why is because i'm afraid
Afraid to loss the point of all the reasons why I LOVE YOU .

To Be Heard

The film To Be Heard is  film that once you watch it you will want to watch it over and aver again.  When i watched this film i wasn't that interested because i'm not really into poems. Once i watched it i realize that it's not all about  reading poems what it's really about, how poems can change your life into a better person. These young guys Anthony, Kaina and Pearl where the main characters of this film.  They where all born in south bronx.  They went to school and tryed to keep everything undercontrol with there life and try to stay out of trouble and turn there life into a better one.  It all statred at school when this brave directors named Roland Legiardi-Laura and Amy Sultan.  They where teaching at a school in the bronx for peotry and they thought that mabye if the kids wrote poetry about there life that it will make a big change.   These kids where really going through a lot in there life with there family and everything that was happing to them would get in there way of doing better in school for a better future.ROLAND LEGIARDI-LAURAROLAND LEGIARDI-LAURA